Bleeding edge Articles
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Progress update on WebRTC for Firefox on desktop
WebRTC for desktop is now in Firefox Nightly and is also in Firefox Aurora, though Nightly has the hottest up-to-date fixes. We support mozGetUserMedia, mozRTCPeerConnection and DataChannels. We have a basic UI for mozGetUserMedia which we expect to be updating in the coming weeks. Enabling WebRTC in Firefox The code is behind a pref for […]
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Firefox Development Highlights – H.264 & MP3 support on Windows, scoped stylesheets + more
Time for the first look this year into the latest developments with Firefox. This is part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). H.264 & MP3 support on Windows Firefox for Android and Firefox OS already support H.264 and […]
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FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction
FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc team has been working on implementing a “version zero” of the concept. We’ve been tinkering for the last 6 months on an implementation, and it’s […]
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HiDPI support, HTML5 notifications, Parallel JS, asm.js and more – Firefox Development Highlights
Time for another look at the latest developments with Firefox. This is part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). HiDPI support We’re happy to say that ico/icns with multiple images are now supported: the highest resolution icon is […]
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WebRTC enabled, H.264/MP3 support in Win 7 on by default, Metro UI for Windows 8 + more – Firefox Development Highlights
Time again for looking at the latest progress with Firefox. These posts are part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series – take note that most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). WebRTC enabled by default Previously, you needed to go to about:config in Firefox and set […]
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Testing Picture-in-Picture for videos in Firefox 69 Beta and Developer Edition
Firefox has an experimental new UI feature in Firefox 69 Beta and Developer Edition - and Firefox engineers are looking for feedback on the implementation. Picture in Picture in the browser lets you pop a video out from where it’s being played into a special kind of window that’s always on top. Then you can move that window around or resize it however you need! Let us know what you think.
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ArchiveAPI – read out archive file contents + Introducing Bleeding Edge
Working with files on the web has been a challenge for a long time, and when things like various File APIs have surfaced, it has made me really happy! Now on to the latest edition: ArchiveAPI, giving the ability to work with archive files. Introducing Bleeding Edge Before I start talking about the ArchiveAPI, I […]
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DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox
Bitmovin and Mozilla, both members of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), are partnering to bring AV1 playback with HTML5 to Firefox as the first browser to play AV1 MPEG-DASH/HLS streams. To make playback possible while the AV1 bitstream is still being finalized, we just need to ensure that the encoder and decoder use the same version of the bitstream. Bitmovin and Mozilla agreed on a simple, but for the time being useful, codec string, to ensure compatibility - check out the playback demo to see for yourself.
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Containers Come to Test Pilot
The Containers feature in Firefox Nightly gives users the ability to place barriers on the flow of data across sites by isolating cookies, indexedDB, localStorage, and caches within discrete browsing contexts. After running the Containers UI through successive rounds of user research and UX iteration, we’ve launched a Containers experiment in Firefox Test Pilot in order to widen the audience for Containers, iterate on the UI, and reason about the future of the feature.
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The future of layout with CSS: Grid Layouts
In this article we’ll take a look at the wonderful world of the CSS Grid Layout, a relatively new W3C specification that has partially started to see the day in some browsers. But before we dive into what this new CSS technique is all about and how to use it, let’s quickly review grid theory. […]
