HTML Articles
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Getting started with Open Web Apps – why and how
We’ve been talking a lot about Open Web Apps, Firefox OS and more here lately, and I wanted to cover both how to get started, and, maybe more importantly, why. Why a web app? If we look at the climate for mobile development, it has usually come down to a choice where developers had to […]
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speak.js: Text-to-Speech on the Web
Text-to-Speech (TTS) can make content more accessible, but there is so far no simple and universal way to do that on the web. One possible approach is shown in this demo, which is powered by speak.js, a new 100% pure JavaScript/HTML5 TTS implementation. speak.js is a port of eSpeak, an open source speech synthesizer, from […]
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Mozilla developer preview (Gecko 1.9.3a2) now available
We’ve posted a new release of our Mozilla developer preview series as a way to test new features that we’re putting into the Mozilla platform. These features may or may not make it into a future Firefox release, either for desktops or for mobile phones. But that’s why we do these releases – to get […]
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Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS
Update: In addition to the Cordova integration described below, Firefox OS is now supported in the 3.5 release of Adobe PhoneGap. If you’re already building apps with PhoneGap, you can quickly and easily port your existing apps to Firefox OS. We think this is so cool that we’ve launched a Phones for PhoneGap Apps program, […]
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Living on the Edge – new Adobe animation tool sparks necessary conversations
Adobe made quite some splash in the last days by releasing Edge, a Flash-like tool to create HTML5/CSS3/JS driven animations. There is a need for a tool like that and I for one am very happy to see that Adobe are recognising this. Other tools that try to tackle the same task are already around, […]
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Hacking Firefox OS
This blog post is written by Luca Greco, a Mozilla community member who loves to hack, especially on JavaScript and other web-related technologies. A lot of developers are already creating mobile applications using Web technologies (powered by containers like Phonegap/Cordova as an example), usually to develop cross platform applications or leverage their current code and/or […]
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Taking About:Home Snippets to the Next Level.
If you are a Firefox user and you start the browser this morning or you type “about:home” in the URL bar we have a surprise for you. Instead of the Firefox logo you’ll see an animation celebrating the global spirit of community. This is just one of many planned enhancements to mozilla.org pages and mozilla […]
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HTML5 adoption stories: box.net and html5 drag and drop
This is a guest post from Tomas Barreto, a developer who works at box.net. They recently adopted HTML5 drag and drop as a way to share files with other people using new features in Firefox. The included video is a pitch for the feature and service, but shows how easy it is to do simple […]
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Beyond HTML5: experiments with interactive audio
This is a re-post of an important post from David Humphrey who has been doing a lot of experiments on top of Mozilla’s extensible platform and doing experiments with multi-touch, sound, video, WebGL and all sorts of other goodies. It’s worth going through all of the demos below. You’ll find some stuff that will amaze […]
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An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we’ve built a new service to make it easier. We’d like to invite you to use it, and help us improve it. More pictures, they said. So […]