Dev Derby Articles
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Where on earth? This month's Developer Derby is all about geolocation.
Another month, another Developer Derby. This month we want you to play with something that is not part of the HTML5 stack and we feel it doesn’t get the love it deserves from developers: the geolocation API. Firefox has supported this API for a long time and you can do some pretty cool things with […]
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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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Lights, Camera, Action! July Dev Derby is all about HTML5 Video!
Show off your coolest video hack in July’s Mozilla Dev Derby! Moving pictures have always fascinated people. From the first zoetropes to the multi million dollar blockbusters of today – seeing things move grabs our attention as humans much better than any clever copy or imagery could. Video was alien to the web for a […]
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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 […]