Articles by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
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Mozilla Hacks gets a new Editor
Almost three and a half years ago I wrote my first article for Mozilla Hacks and have been the Editor since September 2012. As the face and caretaker of this blog for such a long time, having published 350 posts in two years, I want to take the opportunity to thank you all for reading, […]
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Save the Web – Be a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow
This is a critical time in the evolution of the Web. Its core ethos of being free and open is at risk with too little interoperability and threats to privacy, security, and expression from governments throughout the world. To protect the Web, we need more people with technical expertise to get involved at the policy […]
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Visually Representing Angular Applications
This article concerns diagrammatically representing Angular applications. It is a first step, not a fully figured out dissertation about how to visual specify or document Angular apps. And maybe the result of this is that I, with some embarrassment, find out that someone else already has a complete solution. My interest in this springs from […]
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interact.js for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures
interact.js is a JavaScript module for Drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers (and also IE8+). Background I started it as part of my GSoC 2012 project for Biographer‘s network visualization tool. The tool was a web app which rendered to an SVG canvas and used jQuery UI […]
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jsDelivr and its open-source load balancing algorithm
This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov of jsDelivr. Recently I wrote about jsDelivr and what makes it unique where I described in detail about the features that we offer and how our system works. Since then we improved a lot of stuff and released even more features. But the biggest one is was […]
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NFC in Firefox OS
Firefox OS is being developed in an open collaboration with Mozilla’s partners and community. In that spirit, and over the course of over a year, Mozilla and Deutsche Telekom (DT) teams worked closely together to develop a platform-level support for NFC within Firefox OS. During that time, both teams had regular product and engineering meet-ups […]
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An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we’ve built a new service to make it easier. We’d like to invite you to use it, and help us improve it. More pictures, they said. So […]
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Porting to Emscripten
Emscripten is an open-source compiler that compiles C/C++ source code into the highly optimizable asm.js subset of JavaScript. This enables running programs originally written for desktop environments in a web browser. Porting your game to Emscripten offers several benefits. Most importantly it enables reaching a far wider potential user base. Emscripten games work on any […]
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Massive: The asm.js Benchmark
asm.js is a subset of JavaScript that is very easy to optimize. Most often it is generated by a compiler, such as Emscripten, from C or C++ code. The result can run at very high speeds, close to that of the same code compiled natively. For that reason, Emscripten and asm.js are useful for things […]
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Introducing SIMD.js
SIMD stands for Single Instruction Multiple Data, and is the name for performing operations on multiple data elements together. For example, a SIMD add instruction can add multiple values, in parallel. SIMD is a very popular technique for accelerating computations in graphics, audio, codecs, physics simulation, cryptography, and many other domains. In addition to delivering […]
