Articles by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
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SVG & colors in OpenType fonts
Prolog Until recently having more than one color in a glyph of a vector font was technically not possible. Getting a polychrome letter required multiplying the content for every color. Like it happened with many other techniques before, it took some time for digital type to overcome the constraints of the old technique. When printing […]
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The Visibility Monitor supported by Gaia
With the booming ultra-low-price device demands, we have to more carefully calculate about each resource of the device, such as CPU, RAM, and Flash. Here I want to introduce the Visibility Monitor which has existed for a long time in Gaia. Origin The Visibility Monitor originated from the Gallery app of Gaia and appeared in […]
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Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy
Passwordless is an authentication middleware for Node.js that improves security for your users while being fast and easy to deploy. The last months were very exciting for everyone interested in web security and privacy: Fantastic articles, discussions, and talks but also plenty of incidents that raised awareness. Most websites are, however, still stuck with the […]
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Unity games in WebGL: Owlchemy Labs’ conversion of Aaaaa! to asm.js
You may have seen the big news today, but for those who’ve been living in an Internet-less cave, starting today through October 28 you can check out the brand spankin’ new Humble Mozilla Bundle. The crew here at Owlchemy Labs were given the unique opportunity to work closely with Unity, maker of the leading cross-platform […]
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Blend4Web: the Open Source Solution for Online 3D
Half year ago Blend4Web was first released publicly. In this article I’ll show what Blend4Web is, how it is evolved and and how it can be used for web development. What Is Blend4Web? In short, Blend4Web is an open source framework for creating 3D web applications. It uses Blender – the popular open source 3D […]
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The Missing SDK For Hybrid App Development
Hybrid vs. native: The debate has gone on, and will go on, for ages. Each form of app development has its pros and cons, and an examination of the key differences between the two methods reveals that a flat correlation is like comparing apples to oranges. Many hybrid app developers understand that they’re not starting […]
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Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV: Be the First to get a Developer Stick
The first HDMI streaming stick powered by Firefox OS has arrived. It’s called Matchstick and we’re looking for your help to create apps for this new device. Background Matchstick stems from a group of coders that spent way too much time mired in the guts of platforms such as Boot to Gecko, XBMC, and Boxee. […]
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Generational Garbage Collection in Firefox
Generational garbage collection (GGC) has now been enabled in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine in Firefox 32. GGC is a performance optimization only, and should have no observable effects on script behavior. So what is it? What does it do? GGC is a way for the JavaScript engine to collect short-lived objects faster. Say you have […]
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Low price smartphones – memory management and optimization on Firefox OS
We know how to generate memory a footprint to debug memory leaks and to prevent abusing memory resources. Now, we would like to introduce the memory management and optimizations under the limited memory resources on Firefox OS. How to get more memory on Firefox OS? There are three types of events which can get more […]
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WebIDE, Storage inspector, jQuery events, iframe switcher + more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 34
A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the Firefox 34 release in November. This release brings new tools (storage inspector, WebIDE), an updated profiler, and handy enhancements to the existing tools: WebIDE WebIDE, a […]
