HTML Articles
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People of HTML5 – Divya Manian
HTML5 needs spokespeople to work. There are a lot of people out there who took on this role, and here at Mozilla we thought it is a good idea to introduce some of them to you with a series of interviews and short videos. The format is simple – we send the experts 10 questions […]
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Firefox OS for developers – the platform HTML5 deserves
Over the next few weeks we will publish a series of short videos here that explain what Firefox OS means for developers and how you can be part of the revolution it brings to the world. In various conversations we’ve repeatedly heard from developers that they view Firefox OS as simply a third player in […]
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Firefox and the Web Speech API
Speech Synthesis and recognition are powerful tools to have available on computers, and they have become quite widespread in this modern age — look at tools like Cortana, Dictation and Siri on popular modern OSes, and accessibility tools like screenreaders. But what about the Web? To be able to issue voice commands directly to a […]
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Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web
As part of our effort to grow the Web platform and make it accessible to new devices, we are trying to reduce the Web’s dependence on Flash. As part of that effort, we are standardizing and exposing useful features which are currently only available to Flash to the entirety of the Web platform. One of […]
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Revitalizing Caching
Apparently, there are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and the naming of things (or so Phil Karlton’s dictum goes). Earlier this month, we invited representatives of Twitter, Facebook, SproutCore, Palm’s webOS, Microsoft’s “Office On The Web”, Yahoo, and Google to talk to us about the former problem (amongst other things), though […]
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Mozilla and Games: Pushing the Limits of What’s Possible
At Mozilla, we believe in the power and potential of the Web and want to see it thrive for everyone, everywhere. What We’ve Done We’re committed to building the infrastructure needed to keep the Web the most robust platform on the planet. Although its roots have been around for some time, Mozilla’s focus on games […]
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Hidden Gems of HTML5: classList
If you are a web developer, you surely must know how handy it is to dynamically change the class attribute on an element. The benefits this technique are quite a few: You leave any changes in the look and feel to the CSS You avoid having to loop lots of elements as you can allow […]
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People of HTML5 – Bruce Lawson
Leggi la traduzione in italiano HTML5 needs spokespeople to work. There are a lot of people out there who took on this role, and here at Mozilla we thought it is a good idea to introduce some of them to you with a series of interviews and short videos. The format is simple – we […]
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Using client-side storage, today.
I recently tried to store locally the content of a form to make it resilient to inadvertent tab closing and crashes. Here is what I learned about the different ways to achieve client-side storage. Cookies can crumble Cookies are not a valid storage mean, as their size is limited to roughly 4000 characters (4KB) and […]
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HTML5 context menus in Firefox (Screencast and Code)
You may not know it, but the HTML5 specifications go beyond what we put in the pages and also define how parts of the browser should become available to developers with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. One of these parts of the specs are context menus, or “right click menus”. Using HTML5 and a menu element […]