Web Developers Articles
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Announcing the Developer Roadshow Series
We’re bringing Mozilla’s Developer Roadshow to a city near you! Join us for a meetup-style, Mozilla-focused event series for people who build the Web. Hear from expert speakers highlighting the latest and best in Mozilla and Firefox technologies. See you on the road!
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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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Using the Fullscreen API in web browsers
One thing which has been very important when it comes to creating special end user experiences have been the ability to show something fullscreen, effectively hiding all the other content etc.
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Firefox – tons of tools for web developers!
One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web browser to enable people to create amazing things. The idea here is to list a lot of the tools and options available to you as […]
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Saving images and files in localStorage
As you might know, localStorage is quite powerful when it comes to quickly storing information in the user’s web browser, and it has also been around in all web browsers a long time. But how do we store files in it? Please also make sure to read Storing images and files in IndexedDB.
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getUserMedia is ready to roll!
We blogged about some of our WebRTC efforts back in April. Today we have an exciting update for you on that front: getUserMedia has landed on mozilla-central! This means you will be able to use the API on the latest Nightly versions of Firefox, and it will eventually make its way to a release build. […]
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CSS 3D transformations in Firefox Nightly
When the first 3D transformations in CSS got support on Webkit browsers people got incredibly excited about them. Now that they have matured we also support 3D CSS in Firefox. To see it for yourself, check out one of the latest nightly builds. You can see them in action in this demo of a rotating […]
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Old tricks for new browsers – a talk at jQuery UK 2012
Last Friday around 300 developers went to Oxford, England to attend jQuery UK and learn about all that is hot and new about their favourite JavaScript library. Imagine their surprise when I went on stage to tell them that a lot of what jQuery is used for these days doesn’t need it. If you want […]
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Announcing Boot to Gecko (B2G) – Booting to the Web
Mozilla recently announced the Boot to Gecko (B2G) Project which is a project towards the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web.
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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 […]