Web Developers Articles
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Firefox OS Development: Web Components and Mozilla Brick
In this edition of “Firefox OS: The platform HTML5 deserves” (the previous six videos are published here), Mozilla’s Principal Evangelist Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) grilled Mozilla’s “Senior HTML5 Engineer Angle Bracket Coordinator” Matthew Claypotch (@potch) about the exciting new possibilities of Web Components for Web App developers and how Mozilla’s Brick library, a collection of custom […]
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A call for quality HTML5 demo markup
HTML5 is a necessary evolution to make the web better. Before the HTML5 specs were created we used (and still use) a hacked together bunch of systems meant for describing and linking documents to create applications. We use generic elements to simulate rich interaction modules used in desktop development and we make assumptions as to […]
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Are you a web developer or designer?
If you are a web developer or designer, we can use your input. After gaining some great insights from our previous survey on Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5, we have decided to go broader and get a better industry-wide snapshot of web developers. We have created a new survey in our continued effort to better […]
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Upcoming notification permission changes in Firefox 72
Earlier this year we decided to reduce the amount of unsolicited notification permission prompts people receive as they move around the web using the Firefox browser. This is an intrinsic part of Mozilla's commitment to putting people first when they are online. In preparation, we ran a series of studies and experiments to understand how to improve the user experience and reduce annoyance. Now we're making some changes to the workflow for how sites ask users for permission to send them notifications.
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Fun with new technologies at the Firefox 4 launch party in London
For the Firefox 4 launch party in London, England we wanted to show off to the audience why it is such a big thing that we are moving leaps and bounds in the browser market. Here are the slides and notes explaining just how much fun we can have as developers these days if we […]
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Multimedia on the web and using HTML5 sensibly
Last week I went to the London Ajax User Meetup in London, England to deliver two talks about HTML5. One was a re-run of a talk I gave at MIT about Multimedia on the web and the second was a call to arms to use HTML5 sensibly. You can go over to Skillsmatter web site […]
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Forging Better Tools for the Web
2017 was a big year for Firefox DevTools. We updated and refined the UI, refactored three of the panels, squashed countless bugs, and shipped several new features. This work not only provides a faster and better DevTools experience, but lays the groundwork for some exciting new features and improvements for 2018 and beyond.
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Learning to code for the Web: The MDN Learning Area welcomes you!
As an aspiring developer or as a teacher looking to extend your knowledge of code, it can be difficult to know where to start with web technologies. In this blog post, we’ll be discussing why we have created the Mozilla Developer Network Learning Area to help solve common learning challenges and get you up and […]
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Introducing webcompat.com
For the past few months a small group of contributors inside and outside of Mozilla have been working on webcompat.com. We just recently celebrated moving past the “too broken to share” milestone to the “functional-under-construction.gif” milestone of the project and are eager to share what we’ve been up to. There’s a more elaborate description of […]
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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?