Bleeding edge Articles
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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. […]
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Content Security Policy 1.0 lands in Firefox Aurora
The information in this article is based on work together with Ian Melven, Kailas Patil and Tanvi Vyas. We have just landed support for the Content Security Policy (CSP) 1.0 specification in Firefox Aurora (Firefox 23), available as of tomorrow (May 30th). CSP is a security mechanism that aims to protect a website against content […]
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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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Font Inspector and <time> and <data> elements – 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). Font Inspector A Font Inspector is now available in the Firefox DevTools. In the Firefox Inspector, a “Fonts” panel […]
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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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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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Firefox Development Highlights – Per Window Private Browsing & Canvas' globalCompositeOperation new values
On a regular basis, we like to highlight the latest features in Firefox for developers, as part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). Per Window Private Browsing Private browsing is very useful for web developers. A new private session doesn’t include existing […]
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Firefox Development Highlights: video.playbackRate and download attribute
Here are the latest features in Firefox for developers, as part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). <video>: support for custom playbackRate Setting video.playbackRate changes the “video speed”. 1.0 is regular speed, 2.0 is 2 times faster. From the MDN documentation on […]
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Progress on OMTC, unprefixed Visibility API and CSS improvements – Firefox Development Highlights
To keep all you web developers in the loop about new features and improvements in Firefox, and to be able to test and experiment in an early stage, here’s the latest Firefox Development Highlights. This is part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to […]
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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 […]
