Web Developers Articles
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Vaulting Out of Walled Gardens with Fancy Links
Have you ever noticed that in Twitter, Facebook, Google and Pinterest some links are displayed quite fancily, with preview images, descriptive text summaries and other information? These links are fancy because of metadata in the source code of the web page itself, implemented specifically for the rich display of links inside each of these companies’ […]
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The MDN Redesign “Behind the Scenes”
MDN is getting a new look today. Read about the changes we've made, like bug fixes, toning down the contrast and enabling http2. Want to hear more about our new system for overriding site fonts on a per-locale basis? Drop us a line in the comments section. Did we break something you love? File a bug and we'll take a look.
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Google Analytics, Privacy, and Event Tracking
Many of us use Google Analytics (GA) or similar third-party services to keep track of how people interact with our websites; telling us things like when people visit and what they click. This data can help us make important decisions, such as when to schedule maintenance or if a feature can be removed. Because these […]
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WebHint in Firefox DevTools: Improve Compatibility, Accessibility and more
Creating experiences that look and work great across different browsers is one of the biggest challenges on the web. It can also be the most rewarding part, as it gets your app to as many users as possible. Testing legacy browsers late in the development process can break a feature that you spent hours on, even requiring rewrites to fix. What if the tools in your primary development browser could warn you sooner? With Webhint in Firefox DevTools, we can do exactly that, and more.
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Level Up Your Cross-Browser Testing
Today we’re announcing a special opportunity for web developers to learn how to build and automate functional browser tests — we’ve partnered with Sauce Labs to offer a special extended trial of their excellent tools, and we’ve created a custom learning resource as part of this trial. 2016: The year of web compat In 2016 […]
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Speed Up App Development with X-Tag and Web Components
In the last few years we’ve witnessed an evolution in what ‘app’ means to both developers and consumers. The word app evokes the idea of a rich, task-oriented user experience with highly optimized user interface that responds to its environment and can be used on an array of common devices. In order to make development […]
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Launcher.io – Launch and run free open-source web applications in just 30 seconds – a WebFWD project
There is no longer any doubt: web apps are the focal point of the cloud. From database-as-a-service to platform-as-a-service to security-as-a-service and beyond, the entire *aaS model has the web app as its center of gravity. If you’re a full-fledged developer, then taking full advantage of an app-centric universe is no big deal. Creating new […]
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a 20 second survey to help improve hacks.mozilla.org
I asked this on the mozhacks twitter account earlier today but I’d like to get more feedback: what’s your single favorite thing about hacks.mozilla.org? The survey is totally anonymous and takes 20 seconds or so. It’s limited, much like twitter, to a very short response. If you have ideas on improvement there’s room for that […]
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How we rebuilt the viewsourceconf.org website
There are a lot of interesting challenges when working with legacy code at a large scale, but rebuilding from scratch usually isn’t an option. Recently we had the chance to start fresh and rebuild Mozilla's View Source website for the upcoming conference in London. Here are a few highlights of the architectural decisions we made to make the site faster, more secure, and more reliable.
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Launching Open Web Apps feedback channels – help us make the web better!
About three months ago we launched a feedback channel for the Firefox Developer Tools, and since it was a great success, we’re happy announce a new one for Open Web Apps! For Developer Tools, we have, and keep on getting, excellent suggestions at http://mzl.la/devtools, which has lead to features coming from ideas there being implemented […]