Articles by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
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Embedding WebRTC Video Chat Right Into Your Website
Most of you remember the Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! blog post right here in Mozilla Hacks demonstrating WebRTC video chat between Firefox and Chrome. It raised a lot of attention. Since then we here at Fresh Tilled Soil have seen a tremendous amount of startups and companies which have sprung up building products based […]
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Persona Beta 2 launch
Mozilla Persona is an open authentication system that lets you implement sign-in on your site in an afternoon. Today, Persona Beta 2 was released, including a feature called "Identity Bridging" that lets hundreds of millions of users sign into sites supporting Persona with no new username and no new password. The announcement video gives you […]
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Shiva – More than a RESTful API to your music collection
Music for me is not only part of my daily life, it is an essential part. It helps me concentrate, improves my mood, distracts me and/or helps me relax. This is true for most (if not all) people.The lack of music or the wrong selection of tunes can have the complete opposite effect, it has […]
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HiDPI support, HTML5 notifications, Parallel JS, asm.js and more – Firefox Development Highlights
Time for another look at the latest developments with Firefox. This is part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). HiDPI support We’re happy to say that ico/icns with multiple images are now supported: the highest resolution icon is […]
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Cross-browser camera capture with getUserMedia/WebRTC
Overview With Firefox adding support for getUserMedia, three of the major desktop browsers now have the ability to get data from cameras without the use of plugins. As it’s still early days, however, the implementations differ slightly between browsers. Below is an example of how to work around these differences and a script to do […]
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Full WebRTC support is soon coming to a web browser near you!
The web is such an integral part of our lives and how we communicate with each other. That’s why we get so excited when we reach evolutionary peaks that take us leaps and bounds forward in offering a better and open game-changing experience for users and web developers alike! We believe WebRTC to be one […]
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User-Agent detection, history and checklist
History User-Agent: <something> is a string of characters sent by HTTP clients (browsers, bots, calendar applications, etc.) for each individual HTTP request to a server. The HTTP Protocol as defined in 1991 didn’t have this field, but the next version defined in 1992 added User-Agent in the HTTP requests headers. Its syntax was defined as […]
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Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23
Another uplift has left the building and it’s time to take a look at what’s in Firefox Developer Tools in Firefox 23 currently Aurora, our pre-beta channel. You can download it from the Aurora Download page today. Firefox 23 is currently scheduled to hit the release channel on Tuesday August 6th, 2013. Episode XXIII is […]
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WebRTC Update: Our first implementation will be in release soon. Welcome to the Party! But Please Watch Your Head.
I want to share some useful and exciting updates on Firefox’s WebRTC implementation and provide a sneak peak at some of our plans for WebRTC moving forward. I’ll then ask Adam Roach, who has worked in the VoIP/SIP space on IETF standards for over a decade and who joined the Mozilla WebRTC in November, to […]
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Time to get hacking – Introducing Rec Room
It’s no secret that the best frameworks and tools are extracted, not created out of thin air. Since launching Firefox OS, Mozilla has been approached by countless app developers and web developers with a simple question: “How do I make apps for Firefox OS?” The answer: “It’s the web; use existing web technologies.” was—and still […]
