Articles by Piotr Zalewa
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Web Push notifications from Irssi
Our main communication tool at Mozilla is IRC. I’m running an IRC client called Irssi under screen on a server constantly connected to the network. It’s a close-to-perfect solution with only two outstanding issues for me. One is the lack of emoji characters (I can live with that). The other is more important: there is […]
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 4
How to polish your app and prepare it for market In previous sections of this step-by-step series (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) we’ve created an app that loads multiple school plans from the server. What we have so far is functional, but still has a number of issues, including two which are major: […]
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 3
Adding a server to separate the app from its data This is the third part in our series of posts about creating a dynamic mobile app from a simple HTML site. In Part 2 we separated the data from its visual representation, but the data is still contained inside the app. In this article, we […]
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 2
Or: Making our simple app work for others In the first part of this series, which began late last year, we worked through the process of developing a school planner app. At this point (see the final code from Part 1) we’ve got multiple school plans displayed at once, and we’ve got Web, iOS and […]
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site
This article is a simple tutorial designed to teach you some fundamental skills for creating cross platform web applications. You will build a sample School Plan app, which will provide a dynamic “app-like” experience across many different platforms and work offline. It will use Apache Cordova and Mozilla’s Brick web components. The story behind the […]
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Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS
Update: In addition to the Cordova integration described below, Firefox OS is now supported in the 3.5 release of Adobe PhoneGap. If you’re already building apps with PhoneGap, you can quickly and easily port your existing apps to Firefox OS. We think this is so cool that we’ve launched a Phones for PhoneGap Apps program, […]
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The Side Projects of Mozillians: JSFiddle and Meatspac.es
At Mozilla, we are happy to get the chance to work with a lot of talented people. Therefore, as an on-going series, we wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the exciting projects Mozillians work on in their spare time. JSFiddle JSFiddle is a tool to write web examples (in HTML, JavaScript and […]
