Apps Articles
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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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Building a persistent Notes app for Firefox OS
In this tutorial we will be building a notes app (like Evernote) from scratch and deploy it to Firefox OS! See a live demo. A persistent notes app needs a place to store all the notes for a user (so no one else can read it). For this we will use my own backend solution […]
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It's a wrap! "App Basics for FirefoxOS" is out and ready to get you started
A week ago we announced a series of video tutorials around creating HTML5 apps for Firefox OS. Now we released all the videos and you can watch the series in one go. Photo by Olliver Hallmann The series is aimed at web developers who want to build their first HTML5 application. Specifically it is meant […]
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The Translation of the Firetext App
Firetext is an open-source word processor that aims to provide a user-friendly editing experience, and to fill a major gap in functionality on Firefox OS. Learn how Firetext was localized!
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The Making of the Time Out Firefox OS app
A rash start into adventure So we told our client that yes, of course, we would do their Firefox OS app. We didn’t know much about FFOS at the time. But, hey, we had just completed refactoring their native iOS and Android apps. Web applications were our core business all along. So what was to […]
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App discovery – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the previous edition of this video series we introduced FirefoxOS and what it means for the open web and HTML5. We explained that apps for FirefoxOS are HTML5 apps, and could be as simple as a mobile-optimised web site with a manifest file. Now we’re back explaining how Firefox OS is different from other […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, October 17th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Lazy Parsing in JavaScript Engines Replacing text in the DOM Sizzle, jQuery’s CSS selector engine JavaScript Profiling With The Chrome Developer Tools A Survey of JavaScript Timers on Mobile Resources Store.js – Cross Browser Local Storage – Webcast Pageguide.js – An interactive guide for web page elements using […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, August 29th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Understanding CSS Filter Effects Creating native-like user experiences in PhoneGap with App-UI Deploying Your First Node.js and Socket.io App to Heroku Microsoft’s WebMatrix adds Node.js Support Digesting JavaScript MVC – Pattern Abuse Or Evolution? Resources Useful jQuery Function Demos For Your Projects Joconut: Never Load A Full Page […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, May 30th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Index of Vendor-prefixed APIs in WebKit A guide to CSS3 Units and their uses JavaScript Style Guides And Beautifiers JavaScript Templating with Handlebars Unit test JavaScript applications with Jasmine Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps (and love HTML5) WebSockets: Stable and Ready for Developers Video: Peter Lubbers: The HTML5 […]
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From game jam to mobile and Firefox OS
I love participating in game jams, where game developers get together to craft games in a very short amount of time. I thought it would be cool to take one of my past Game Jam games, Metal vs Hipsters, and port it to the mobile web and Firefox OS. Adapting to mobile My starting point […]