HTML Articles
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BrowserQuest – a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment
It’s time for some gaming action with a new HTML5 game demo: BrowserQuest, a massively multiplayer adventure game created by Little Workshop (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck) and Mozilla. Play the game: browserquest.mozilla.org BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No […]
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HTML5 mythbusting
The ongoing discussion about the “readiness” of HTML5 is based on a lot of false assumptions. These lead to myths about HTML5 that get uttered once and then continuously repeated – a lot of times without checking their validity at all. HTML5 doesn’t perform? The big thing everybody who wants to talk about the problems […]
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There is no simple solution for local storage
TL;DR: we have to stop advocating localStorage as a great opportunity for storing data as it performs badly. Sadly enough the alternatives are not nearly as supported or simple to implement. When it comes to web development you will always encounter things that sound too good to be true. Sometimes they are good, and all […]
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Firefox 5 is here
Today, three months after the release of Firefox 4, we release Firefox 5, thanks to our new development cycle. Developers will be able to create richer animations using CSS3 Animations. This release comes with various improvements, performance optimization and bug fixes. CSS3 Animations CSS Animations (check out the documentation) are a new way to create […]
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Introducing WebAPI
Mozilla would like to introduce WebAPI with the goal to provide a basic HTML5 phone experience within 3 to 6 months.
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Mozilla's Boot to Gecko – The Web is the Platform
Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko (B2G) is about building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web. It aims at making web technologies the number one choice for applications on desktop and mobile, and we believe it can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development. And we have made some exciting progress that we want […]
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Firefox, YouTube and WebM
Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla’s support for the VP8 codec: 1. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. VP8 is a high-quality video codec that Google acquired when they purchased the company On2. The VP8 codec represents a vast improvement in quality-per-bit over Theora and is […]
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It's Opus, it rocks and now it's an audio codec standard!
In a great victory for open standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just standardized Opus as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state of the art, free audio codec to be standardized. We think this will help us achieve wider adoption than prior royalty-free codecs like Speex and Vorbis. This spells the beginning […]
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Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG, speed and more
This is a guest post from Henri Sivonen, who has been working on Firefox’s new HTML5 parser. The HTML parser is one of the most complicated and sensitive pieces of a browser. It controls how your HTML source is turned into web pages and as such changes to it are rare and need to be […]
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Introducing Aurora 11 with tons of new features and improvements
We have now released Aurora 11, soon to become Firefox 11, and wanted to cover all the the things we have improved in this version!