Challenge Articles
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Located: Winners of the September Dev Derby on Geolocation.
With more people going mobile and taking the Web with them, we thought Geolocation was a great topic for the September Dev Derby. Web developers explored a number of ways to bring your physical location into the Web experience and we had 16 demos submitted for the Dev Derby. Voting was tough this month, but […]
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Congrats to our July Dev Derby winners on their amazing HTML5 video demos!
We shifted gears for July and invited Web developers to have some fun with HTML5 video for Dev Derby. We had 15 awesome demos submitted and while there was a lot of entertainment and innovation happening, we had to narrow them down to 5 finalists: Facial Recognition and Analytics with HTML5’s Video Tag HTML5 Video […]
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Making history with the August Dev Derby
It is time to announce another month’s Dev Derby and this August we want you to play with the History API. The History API is a much needed piece of the puzzle of creating modern web applications and here is why: Links are good, they make the web work The web is made up from […]
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Congratulations to our June Dev Derby winners!
We kicked off our series of monthly developer challenges in June to see what Web developers could do with CSS3 Animations. Our first ever Dev Derby was a huge success with almost 30 entries and a variety of demos that brought action to the Web without JavaScript. The results have been awesome! Early fan favorites […]
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Dev Derby – a monthly competition of demos using open technologies
Starting from June, Mozilla runs a monthly competition to showcase newest web technologies. In an international competition individuals can submit demos that show the world just how much is possible using open and free technologies in a modern browser. The Mozilla Dev Derby happens every month and revolves around a certain technology. A panel of […]
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MarbleRun, an HTML5 Game
Take the HTML5 Canvas element, a Javascript library to do the physics (box2d), add a nice design, a social touch, and you have an awesome HTML5 Game called MarbleRun! MarbleRun was the winner of the last Mozilla Game On Challenge, among other exciting HTML5 games (check them out), and had been added to Web O’ […]
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Talking about HTML5 games development at MIT in Boston
As part of our university outreach programme, a few Mozilla people and volunteers went to Boston last week to give a series of lectures on web technologies for games development. During the week we covered topics like WebGL for 3D development, basics of JavaScript, debugging and performance, canvas development, offline development and local storage and […]
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Enter the Firefox Mobile Add-ons Cup
This is a cross-post from the mobile team to invite web developers interested in mobile or add-ons to participate in the Mobile Add-ons Cup. The Firefox Mobile Add-ons Cup has arrived! Develop a mobile add-on for Firefox and showcase your innovation to millions of mobile users. We’re looking for compatible and innovative add-ons to extend […]