Feature Articles
-
color correction for images in Firefox 3.5
Back in Firefox 3, we introduced support for color profiles in tagged images, but it was disabled by default. In Firefox 3.5 we were able to make the color correction process about 5x faster than it was in Firefox 3 so we’ve enabled support for color correction for tagged images. Most images on the web […]
-
better security and performance with native JSON
The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) mechanism for representing data has rapidly become an indispensable part of the web developer’s toolkit, allowing JavaScript applications to obtain and parse data intuitively, within scripts, with lightweight data encapsulation. Firefox 3.5 includes support for JSON natively by exposing a new primitive — window.JSON — to the top level object. […]
-
a short introduction to media queries in Firefox 3.5
This post is by Eric Shepherd, who leads Mozilla’s documentation project at the Mozilla Developer Center. In this day and age, it’s important for web content to support rendering on an increasingly wide variety of devices. Not only do users expect to use your content on their home computer, or read it printed on paper, […]
-
DOM selectors API in Firefox 3.5
The Selectors API recommendation, published by the W3C, is a relatively new effort that gives JavaScript developers the ability to find DOM elements on a page using CSS selectors. This single API takes the complicated process of traversing and selecting elements from the DOM and unifies it under a simple unified interface. Out of all […]
-
shadow boxing with -moz-box-shadow
Another fun CSS3 feature that’s been implemented in Firefox 3.5 is box shadows. This feature allows the casting of a drop “shadow” from the frame of almost any arbitrary element. As the CSS3 box shadow property is still a work in progress, however, it’s been implemented as -moz-box-shadow in Firefox. This is how Mozilla tests […]
-
beautiful fonts with @font-face
This article is also available in Bulgarian. While Firefox 3.0 improved typographic rendering by introducing support for kerning, ligatures, and multiple weights along with support for rendering complex scripts, authors are still limited to using commonly available fonts in their designs. Firefox 3.5 removes this restriction by introducing support for the CSS @font-face rule, a […]
-
stylish text with text-shadow
This post is from Frederic Wenzel, who works on Mozilla’s Web Development team. The text-shadow CSS property does what the name implies: It lets you create a slightly blurred, slightly moved copy of text, which ends up looking somewhat like a real-world shadow. The text-shadow property was first introduced in CSS2, but as it was […]
-
geolocation in Firefox 3.5
This post is from Doug Turner, one of the engineers who is behind the Geolocation support in Firefox 3.5. Location is all around us. As of this writing, I am in a coffee shop in Toronto, Canada. If I type google into the url bar, it takes me to www.google.ca, the Canadian version of Google, […]
-
pushing pixels with canvas
This post was written by Paul Rouget, who is a member of the Mozilla Evangelism team. Paul lives in Paris, France and is well known for some of his amazing work with open video on the web among other things. Canvas, at its most simple level, is an easy way to draw bitmap data into […]
