Mobile Articles
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Bringing the web to mobiles – Mozilla and Telefonica at Over the Air 2012
A few weeks ago, Over the Air 2012, Englands biggest mobile (un)conference in Bletchley Park, England (home of the first ever computer built to crack the German Enigma encryption machines) attracted a few hundred developers to hear about the latest happenings in the mobile space and hack with them. Mozilla’s contribution was not only the […]
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A look into a Firefox work week
This post was originally published as A Compendium of Awesome, and is a short summary of a Firefox work week. Posted here to give an overview, with focus on some details, about things happening with Firefox developement. Two weeks ago, the Firefox team got together for a work week in Toronto. It was amazing. Walking […]
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Mozilla and Facebook working together to make mobile browser support more predictable
As announced on the Facebook developer blog and explained in more detail on Brendan Eich’s blog we are one step closer to making the mobile browser market more predictable. Mozilla is happy to support Facebook in forming a Core Mobile Web Platform W3C Community Group in which to curate prioritized, tiered lists of emerging and […]
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HTML5 and CSS3: Exploring Mobile Possibilities – presentation at London Ajax Mobile Event
In the beginning of July, I was attending and giving a presentation at the London Ajax Mobile Event about possibilities offered by HTML5 and CSS3 when it comes to developing mobile web sites and applications. Short introduction of me Being my first post here at Mozilla Hacks, I thought I’d start by briefly introducing myself […]
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Want to fix the mobile web with us? Please answer some questions we have!
At Mozilla our main reason to be is to keep the web open and free for everybody. We are passionate about the web and love how easy it is to get started as a developer. A few years ago we fought against monoculture on the desktop and won. Now we have the new challenge to […]
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People of HTML5: Andrew Betts on building the FT.com HTML5 app
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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Designing Web Apps For Multiple Devices
Before 2010, there were few devices on the Web other than smartphones and desktop/laptop computers. Developers could assume phone users had a small screen, low bandwidth and used a webapp for brief moments. Desktop users were assumed to have a large screen, high bandwidth and spend large amounts of time within an application. Designing a […]
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Presentation: Web vs. Native at Reasons to be Appy
Yesterday around 300 attendees came to the amazing L.S.O. at St Luke’s in London, England for Reasons to be Appy conference. In nine presentations several speakers covered all kind of concepts around app development, from typography to mobile debugging. Mozilla’s presentation was Christian Heilmann talking about the controversy around the battle of native vs. web […]
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State of the Web APIs – an interview with John Hammink
As you might be aware, Mozilla is working hard on making mobile development possible with purely open technologies. For this, we are defining a set of APIs to access the hardware of mobile devices called the Web APIs. John Hammink of Mozilla published a blog post on the subject on Monday outlining the current state […]
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Located: Winners of the September Dev Derby on Geolocation.
With more people going mobile and taking the Web with them, we thought Geolocation was a great topic for the September Dev Derby. Web developers explored a number of ways to bring your physical location into the Web experience and we had 16 demos submitted for the Dev Derby. Voting was tough this month, but […]