Web Developers Articles
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A Web for Everyone: Interviews with Web Practitioners — Rachel Andrew
A recent article on Mozilla Hacks, “Make the Web Work for Everyone,” explored challenges and opportunities in browser compatibility. In that post we urged developers to build cross-browser compatible web experiences in order to maximize exposure and market size; prevent interface bugs that drive users away forever; and demonstrate professional mastery. Today we’re kicking off […]
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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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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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View Source Conference: 16 great reasons to join us in Portland
What, when, where View Source is a brand new conference for web developers, presented by Mozilla and friends, produced by the folks who also bring you the Mozilla Developer Network, to share knowledge of the Open Web. It’s a single track event with plenty of time and space for discussion, demos, and hallway conversations. Talks […]
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Making and Breaking the Web With CSS Gradients
What is CSS prefixing and why do I care? Straight from the source: “Browser vendors sometimes add prefixes to experimental or nonstandard CSS properties, so developers can experiment but changes in browser behavior don’t break the code during the standards process. Developers should wait to include the unprefixed property until browser behavior is standardized.” As […]
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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 […]
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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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Take the Developer Economics 7th Global Survey
I’ve always preferred to think of myself as anything but a Marketer. In business school, there was a clear hierarchy assigned to the functional classifications amongst us. At the very top sat the investment bankers, commanding the most respect and highest paying job offers. And always at the very bottom the Marketing folks groveled, earning […]
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What Mozilla Hacks is
With the Mozilla moniker, many people believe that the Hacks blog is only about Mozilla products or news. Therefore, I wanted to take the chance to enlighten you and also invite you to be a part of creating content here. What we cover here The goal and objective of Mozilla Hacks is to be one […]
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Building a persistent Notes app for Firefox OS
In this tutorial we will be building a notes app (like Evernote) from scratch and deploy it to Firefox OS! See a live demo. A persistent notes app needs a place to store all the notes for a user (so no one else can read it). For this we will use my own backend solution […]
