Apps Articles
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Desktop Apps with HTML5 and the Mozilla Web Runtime
Desktop Apps with HTML5 One of the best things about HTML is that it’s never “done”. HTML has been with us longer than most of the development technologies that we consider commonplace. (.NET, ASP, Java, PHP, etc.) The latest incarnation of HTML, HTML5 has been the source of a great deal of buzz in the […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, May 8th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Financial Times passes 2m users for its HTML5 web app Coding the future: HTML5 takes the internet by storm Utilize JavaScript messaging with postal.js Open Source Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile JavaScript Style Guides And Beautifiers Spine.js vs Backbone.js HTML5 – You’ll never believe how LinkedIn built […]
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Privacy policy guidelines and Template for web apps
Releasing an app is much more than just coding it. You are providing a service to people and they trust you with their data. With the amount of reports of apps “calling home” and storing and sending your data to third parties without your consent rising it is important to make it plain and obvious […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, April 25th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Mozilla Marketplace Partner Spotlights: Here are some profiles of app developers who are joining the Mozilla Marketplace. Kicksend Teambox Audiovroom MobBase Resources Create.js – a suite of tools for creating rich HTML5 experiences The State of HTML5 Video (with compatibility tables) Semantic client-side device detection with Media Queries Adobe’s […]
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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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Enhance your HTML5 app with audio.
When we think of sound in an HTML application we might think of two things: We remember all those sites that started playing loud obnoxious background music when the page loads and then we think about music playing apps. Sound can however be much more: when building immersive app experiences it can be a crucial […]
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1st ever MDN Hack Day in NYC
So what’s an MDN Hack Day, you ask? The intention is to host a day of talks, hacks and demos that first introduces the participants to Mozilla and our various open web projects, then invite attendees to shift into participant mode and start hacking. Another way I like to think of it is that we […]
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HTML5: The difference between an App and a Page.
HTML5 is only one part of the”Stack” HTML5 is really more than one thing. In the strictest sense, HTML5 is fifth major revision of the W3C specification of the markup language that is used to create web pages. But in a practical sense, HTML5 is far more than that. For developers, HTML is a wave […]
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The Mozilla Marketplace is now open for app submissions
The Web IS the Platform! Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, a developer can build an app using responsive design, and that app can offer the same look and feel as a device-native app, without having to rewrite for every desired target platform. One code base – all popular devices! Now, developers can build apps and […]
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FOSDEM 2012: Mozilla Labs Apps and The Future of HTML5 Games
In this post I round-up my first time at FOSDEM and the two talks I gave during my time there; one on open Web apps and the other on creating games with HTML5.