Apps Articles
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Firefox OS App Days: It's a Wrap!
Over the last few weeks, Mozilla sponsored a worldwide series of hack days for developers to learn about creating apps for Firefox OS. Dubbed “Firefox OS App Days,” the events took place in more than 25 locales around the world, starting on 19 January in Mountain View, California and ending on 2 February in Berlin, […]
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Getting started with Open Web Apps – why and how
We’ve been talking a lot about Open Web Apps, Firefox OS and more here lately, and I wanted to cover both how to get started, and, maybe more importantly, why. Why a web app? If we look at the climate for mobile development, it has usually come down to a choice where developers had to […]
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Writing Web Apps Quickly With Mortar
With the introduction of Firefox OS, development of an open apps marketplace, and a push to implement powerful web APIs for closer hardware integration, Mozilla is serious about web apps. We believe that the web can deliver an experience similar to native apps, even on mobile. We can’t forget about the most important piece, however: […]
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Join Us for Firefox OS App Days
If you’re a developer interested in web technologies, I’d like to invite you to participate in Firefox OS App Days, a worldwide set of 20+ hack days organized by Mozilla to help you get started developing apps for Firefox OS. At each App Day event, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, hack and celebrate Firefox OS, […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, December 19th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles AngularJS JavaScript MVC Framework and SEO JS adolescence Compiling to JavaScript: What, Why, and How? JavaScript APIs you’ve never heard of (and some you have) Responsive Images: What We Thought We Needed Resources Craft.js – small but powerful JavaScript framework Cool HTML Visual Test Tool ScrobMaster – Master […]
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A Conversation With Appeio Developer Harold Fudge
Editor’s note: Appeio is no longer available, and Harold is now spending his time with his consultancy. Last month we released Firefox Marketplace on the Aurora channel of Firefox for Android. This release has given developers an opportunity to start building a base of early adopters and get feedback on apps as the Marketplace grows. […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, November 21th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Asynchronous programming and continuation-passing style in JavaScript Clone Anything with JavaScript HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals – Development for Absolute Beginners Backbonification: migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js JavaScript DocumentFragment Resources jQuery-Form-Validator jPanelMenu – a jQuery plugin that creates a paneled-style menu Responsive Img – […]
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Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator
Firefox OS (and the Boot2Gecko (B2G) project on which it is based) has been written about extensively on Hacks already, but the brief summary is that Mozilla is building a mobile phone operating system where the whole user interface is built on web technology (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Part of the magic in making that […]
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, October 24th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers Articles Using HTML5’s canvas and audio elements for a guitar tuning mobile app Rendering templates obsolete with JavaScript Rich JavaScript Applications – the Seven Frameworks Getting HTML5 Ready – CORS Five things you didn’t know the web could do Resources Fuel UX extends Twitter Bootstrap with additional lightweight JavaScript […]
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Firefox Aurora Marketplace for Android available now
Today, Mozilla announced the Firefox Aurora Marketplace release. We’re hoping that Aurora users, our awesome early adopters, will go experience the Firefox Marketplace on their Android phones and let us know what they think. Our goal is to collect as much real-life feedback as possible about the Marketplace’s design, usability, performance, reliability, and content. Feedback […]