Mobile Articles
-
Building Firefox Hub Add-ons for Firefox for Android
The Firefox Hub APIs allow add-ons to add new panels to the Firefox for Android home page, where users normally find their top sites, bookmarks and history. These APIs were introduced in Firefox 30, but there are more features and bug fixes in Firefox 31 and 32. You can already find some of these add-ons […]
-
Flambe Provides Support For Firefox OS
Flambe is a performant cross-platform open source game engine based on the Haxe programming language. Games are compiled to HTML5 or Flash and can be optimized for desktop or mobile browsers. The HTML5 Renderer uses WebGL, but provides fallback to the Canvas tag and functions nicely even on low-end phones. Flash Rendering uses Stage 3D […]
-
Custom Elements for Custom Applications – Web Components with Mozilla's Brick and X-Tag
In this article, we will explore the use of Mozilla’s Brick and X-Tag libraries. First we’ll use Brick to rapidly prototype a simple application. Then, we’ll build a custom web component using X-Tag. The Technology Brick: Curated Web Components Brick is a set of modular, reusable UI components. The components are designed for adaptive, responsive […]
-
Theora on N900
This is a re-post from Matthew Gregan’s personal weblog on the work that he’s been doing to bring HTML5 open video to mobile devices. Google recently announced funding for some work to bring Theora to ARM devices via a CPU-driven code path. Mozilla has been funding similar work over the last year or so to […]
-
Methods for Web Content Analysis and Context Detection
This project was part of Portland State University’s senior capstone program. It is the work of seven students over the course of six months. For the duration of the project we worked with a Mozilla adviser, Dietrich Ayala, to keep on track with the project’s original requirements. The team was composed of the following students: […]
-
Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 2
Or: Making our simple app work for others In the first part of this series, which began late last year, we worked through the process of developing a school planner app. At this point (see the final code from Part 1) we’ve got multiple school plans displayed at once, and we’ve got Web, iOS and […]
-
It's a wrap! "App Basics for FirefoxOS" is out and ready to get you started
A week ago we announced a series of video tutorials around creating HTML5 apps for Firefox OS. Now we released all the videos and you can watch the series in one go. Photo by Olliver Hallmann The series is aimed at web developers who want to build their first HTML5 application. Specifically it is meant […]
-
Announcing the winners of the March 2013 Dev Derby!
This past March, some of the most creative web developers out there showed us what they could do for the mobile Web in the March Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our our three expert judges–Craig Cook, Franck Lecollinet, and Guillaume Lecollinet–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not a contestant? There are […]
-
Mozilla Hacks Weekly, September 27th 2012
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team to share some good links with you!
-
HTML5 Web applications and libraries survey – first results
At Mozilla, we are dedicated to keep the web open and independent of a single company or technology. This means that users should have a choice of browsers and technology to use to go online and should not be blocked out because they can’t afford a certain device or are forbidden to change their browser. […]