CSS Articles
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Capturing – Improving Performance of the Adaptive Web
Responsive design is now widely regarded as the dominant approach to building new websites. With good reason, too: a responsive design workflow is the most efficient way to build tailored visual experiences for different device screen sizes and resolutions. Responsive design, however, is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to creating a […]
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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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audio player – HTML5 style
Last week we featured a demo from Alistair MacDonald (@F1LT3R) where he showed how to animate SVG with Canvas and a bunch of free tools. This week he has another demo for us that shows how you can use the new audio element in Firefox 3.5 with some canvas and JS to build a nice-looking […]
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Firefox 49 fixes sites designed with WebKit in mind, and more
Several recent articles on the Hacks blog explain why web developers should care about cross-browser compatibility and how great web developers achieve it. Web developers have a critical role in making the web work for everyone. And so do browser makers. As of today we’re introducing a number of compatibility features to the Gecko rendering […]
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You might not need a CSS framework
CSS frameworks have been around for a while and they have gotten extremely popular in the front-end development scene. These frameworks provide snippets of code you can just copy and paste in your website to craft the whole layout and UI. You have already probably read a lot of articles about how they might be […]
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Live Editing Sass and Less in the Firefox Developer Tools
Sass and Less are expressive languages that compile into CSS. If you’re using Sass or Less to generate your CSS, you might want to debug the source that you authored and not the generated CSS. Luckily you can now do this in the Firefox 29 developer tools using source maps. The Firefox developer tools use […]
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pointer-events for HTML in Firefox 3.6
The pointer-events CSS property has long been available as part of SVG as a way to control if a mouse event should be sent to the element directly underneath the mouse or passed through to an element underneath it. In Firefox 3.6 we’ve extended the property to allow it to apply to normal HTML content […]
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Old tricks for new browsers – a talk at jQuery UK 2012
Last Friday around 300 developers went to Oxford, England to attend jQuery UK and learn about all that is hot and new about their favourite JavaScript library. Imagine their surprise when I went on stage to tell them that a lot of what jQuery is used for these days doesn’t need it. If you want […]
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Introducing Aurora 9
We have just released Aurora 9 (download and test Aurora 9), which is planned to be the upcoming Firefox 9. In it, we have a number of new things that we hope will get you excited!
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Firefox 66: The Sound of Silence
Firefox 66 is out, and brings with it a host of great new features like screen sharing, scroll anchoring, autoplay blocking for audible media, and initial support for the Touch Bar on macOS.