Apps Articles
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Introducing fxpay for in-app payments
A while ago Mozilla announced navigator.mozPay() for accepting payments on Firefox OS. This was our first step toward helping developers do commerce on the web. It solved the problem of processing payments but what about the rest? Today we’re announcing an early peek at fxpay, a library for the rest of what you need as […]
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Firefox OS App Workshop Prague
Update:This event will be rescheduled for Autumn 2014. We are designing the workshop with a new regional focus and aim to re-open the invitation request form with a confirmed date and venue before the summer starts. Please stay tuned here on the Hacks blog. Back in March, Mozilla tech evangelist Frédéric Harper visited Prague in […]
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Halloween artist
A while back, I made a little toy that simulates carving pumpkins. It was during that narrow window when the WebOS-running TouchPad was new and hot. Since then, web browsers have gown up a lot, and nowadays Mozilla is executing the vision of a browser-based operating system with Firefox OS. In any case, I’ve been […]
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Getting started with apps – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the third instance of our “Firefox OS – the platform HTML5 deserves” video series (part one and part two have already been published here) we talk about tools available for building apps for Firefox OS. Check the short video featuring Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) from Mozilla and Daniel Appelquist (@torgo) from Telefónica Digital/ W3C talking […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, July 11th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Responsive Tables – Don’t let tables break your responsive layout anymore. Diving Into CSS Regions Self-updating scripts HTML5 adaptive images: end of round one. YUIDoc 3.0 Release Notice – JavaScript documentation generator. Resources WYSIHTML5 – A better approach to rich text editing Cuepoint JS – A plugin for […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, June 20th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Meet Crockford’s JSCheck Front-end Unit Testing with JavaScript An introduction to jQuery Deferred Functions JavaScript design patterns – Part 2: Adapter, decorator, and factory How To Build A Real-Time Commenting System Resources Node Package Manager registry Knockout.js – A MVVM Framework for JavaScript App.js – Build Desktop Applications […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, June 13th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles New Firefox Developer Tools Help You Build Responsive Websites Firefox demos responsive tool DOM Level 3 Mutation Events – I Want a DAMNodeInserted Event! New ECMAScript 6 Spec Draft Available O’Reilly Radar : The surprising rise of JavaScript Resources HTML5 Music Player A lightweight javascript date library for […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, April 18th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers At Mozilla we’re really excited about HTML5 in general and the Mozilla Apps initiative in particular. Each week we’ll post here on Hacks with a list of resources of interest to developers building HTML5 apps. This week, we’ll start with a reference list of resources for apps and HTML5 […]
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Hacks Decoded: Adewale Adetona
Adetona Adewale Akeem, more popularly known as iSlimfit, is a Nigeria-born revered digital technologist and marketing expert. He is the co-founder of Menopays, a fintech startup offering another Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option across Africa. We chatted with him about founding Menopays and the impact of tech solutions developed in Nigeria.
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 4
How to polish your app and prepare it for market In previous sections of this step-by-step series (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) we’ve created an app that loads multiple school plans from the server. What we have so far is functional, but still has a number of issues, including two which are major: […]