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Syncing page content with HTML5 video (a different kind of webinar)
If you’ve been around the software industry for a little while, you’ve probably attended at least a few “webinars”, where someone does an online presentation, which you can watch and listen to in real time. You might be able to ask questions via a chat window, and if you’re lucky, the presenter will select your […]
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Why is CSS So Weird?
CSS is the design language of the web — one of three core web languages — but it also seems to be the most contentious and often perplexing. It's too easy and too hard, too fragile and too resilient. Love it or hate it, CSS is weird: not quite markup, not quite programming in the common (imperative) sense, and nothing like the design programs we use for print. How did we get here?
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Popcorn Maker 1.0 released – how it works
This week Mozilla is in London at the Mozilla Festival 2012. A year ago at last year’s Festival, we released Popcorn.js 1.0, and with it a way for filmmakers, journalists, artists, and bloggers to integrate audio and video into web experiences. Popcorn has since become one of the most popular ways to build time-based media […]
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Overview and demos of HTML5 Forms input types, attributes and elements
One of the major parts of HTML5 is offering new semantics for HTML code and also to ease the most common tasks for web developers and end users alike. Making forms easier and better is one of those main goals. With HTML5 Forms we get things like: New input types New attributes New elements In […]
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Securing Gamepad API
As part of Mozilla’s ongoing commitment to improve the privacy and security of the web platform, over the next few months, we will be making some changes to the Gamepad API. Starting with Firefox 81, the Gamepad API will be restricted to what are known as “secure contexts.”
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Flash, In Memoriam
Part I of a two-part reflection on digital multimedia, yesterday and today: Macromedia launched Flash 1.0 in 1996 with the grand vision of a single multimedia platform that would work flawlessly in any browser or any computer. In its day, Flash triggered a wave of creativity and inspired millions of people around the world to create digital media for the web. At one time, 75% of all video content on the web was delivered via the Flash player.
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Ruby support in Firefox Developer Edition 38
It was a long-time request from East Asian users, especially Japanese users, to have ruby support in the browser. Formerly, because of the lack of native ruby support in Firefox, users had to install add-ons like HTML Ruby to make ruby work. However, in Firefox Developer Edition 38, CSS Ruby has been enabled by default, […]
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Videos and Firefox OS
Before HTML5 Those were dark times Harry, dark times – Rubeus Hagrid Before HTML5, displaying video on the Web required browser plugins and Flash. Luckily, Firefox OS supports HTML5 video so we don’t need to support these older formats. Video support on the Web Even though modern browsers support HTML5, the video formats they support […]
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Opus Support for WebRTC
As we announced during the beta cycle, Firefox now supports the new Opus audio format. We expect Opus to be published as RFC 6716 any day now, and we’re starting to see Opus support pop up in more and more places. Momentum is really building. What does this mean for the web? Keeping the Internet […]
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Report from San Francisco Gigabit Hack Days with US Ignite
This past weekend, the Internet Archive played host to a crew of futurist hackers for the San Francisco Gigabit Hack Days. The two-day event, organized by Mozilla and the City of San Francisco, was a space for hackers and civic innovators to do some experiments around the potential of community fiber and gigabit networks. Kick-off […]