Articles by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
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Network Monitor, now in Firefox Beta
The Firefox Developer Tools team is particularly proud announce that Firefox 23 (in Firefox Beta, to be released today) ships with an initial but very functional Network Monitor tool that not only provides similar functionality to other tool sets, but in many improves on them. This important step is the result of lots of hard […]
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Updating and Tweaking your Firefox OS Developer Preview phone/Geeksphone
Developer Preview editions of the Firefox OS phone are now becoming widely available to the community, mainly through Geeksphone. Since these are for developers, naturally we want to encourage you to tinker and play with them as much as possible! In this post we will cover some basic tips on how to keep your phone […]
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Storing images and files in IndexedDB
The other day we wrote about how to Save images and files in localStorage, and it was about being pragmatic with what we have available today. There are, however, a number of performance implications with localStorage – something that we will cover on this blog later – and the desired future approach is utilizing IndexedDB. […]
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Introducing Aurora 9
We have just released Aurora 9 (download and test Aurora 9), which is planned to be the upcoming Firefox 9. In it, we have a number of new things that we hope will get you excited!
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Progress report on cross-platform Open Web Apps
Here in the Hacks blog we’ve written a lot about building apps for Firefox OS using HTML, JS, and CSS. We’re working to ensure that those same apps can also run on Android, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux devices. If your app can adapt to those screen sizes, CPU’s, and device capabilities, then we’ve […]
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Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one tool? We believe the Web is powerful enough to offer a Mobile Web development solution that meets these needs! Enter an experimental Firefox add-on called […]
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Using mozjpeg to Create Efficient JPEGs
The mozjpeg project recently released version 2.1. It aims to improve the efficiency of JPEG encoding over existing encoders while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority of existing decoders. I’d like to explain how you can use this software to reduce the size of your JPEGs. Specifically, I’m going to go over usage of mozjpeg’s […]
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Making WebRTC Simple with conversat.io
WebRTC is awesome, but it’s a bit unapproachable. Last week, my colleagues and I at &yet released a couple of tools we hope will help make it more tinkerable and pose a real risk of actually being useful. As a demo of these tools, we very quickly built a simple product called conversat.io that lets […]
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Announcing Boot to Gecko (B2G) – Booting to the Web
Mozilla recently announced the Boot to Gecko (B2G) Project which is a project towards the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web.
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CSS Length Explained
When styling a web site with CSS you might have realised that an inch on a screen is not an actual inch, and a pixel is not necessarily an actual pixel. Have you ever figured out how to represent the speed of light in CSS pixels? In this post, we will explore the definition of […]