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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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Presentation: HTML5 and friends at Mobile World Congress 2012
As part of the WIP Jam at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain we were asked to give and introduction to HTML5 so we sent Chris Heilmann and Joe Stagner to set the record straight in terms of what HTML5 is and what you can do with it. The presentation was on the last […]
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Gaia, Mozilla's user interface for Boot to Gecko – all web technologies
On Monday we wrote about Boot to Gecko and its announcements and discussing how the Web is the Platform. Today we’ll look at Gaia, Mozilla’s user interface for Boot to Gecko, which is an extension of that.
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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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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, February 2nd 2012
After a little break, Mozilla Hacks Weekly is now back! More reading tips from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team. We also have a new format for our content, so please let us know if you have any thoughts on that!
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Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas
HTML5 Canvas is a very cool feature. Seemingly just an opportunity to paint inside the browser with a very low-level API you can use it to heavily convert and change image and video content in the document. Today, let’s take a quick look at how you can use Canvas and the FileReader API to create […]
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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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Mozilla Vision 2012: The Future of HTML5 and Web Technologies
We are currently in Tokyo, Japan for the Mozilla Vision 2012 conference and hack day. For two days Mozilla Japan with friends from the other locations are putting up an amazing effort to encourage people to help us educate the next generation of web makers. Being in Japan, all of this is of course wrapped […]
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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!
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New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox
As explained in this blog post by Jared Wein of the Firefox team there are quite a few new features in Firefox when it comes to playing HTML5 video. As an Aurora user, I am most excited about the option to go full-screen, the ability to overlay video statistics and to save a snapshot of […]