Found 493 results for “html5”
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A Social-aware Dashboard Experience with Gecko in Walls
This article covers a Web project that rethinks how TV appliances can be used in public spaces for real-time content and interaction with social networks. Tela Social is a powered by Mozilla system application that runs in Linux appliances and creates a visual experience that presents custom and interactive content with real time data using […]
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Serving Backbone for Robots & Legacy Browsers
I like the Single Page Application model and Backbone.js, because I get it. As a former Java developer, I am used to object oriented coding and events for messaging. Within our HTML5 consultancy, SC5, Backbone has become almost a synonym for single page applications, and it is easy to move between projects because everybody gets […]
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Gameleon and the map editor – a WebFWD project
More than 9 months ago, we were working on a web game, having all the nice HTML5 stuff like Canvas, WebSocket, CSS3. We were playing a lot with experimental code in NodeJS and Redis. We had all the nice scripts and plugins and quite a good architecture to make the game possible. We lacked one […]
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Notes on developing an API – Mobozi, a WebFWD project
HTML5 has made it easy to do a lot of really cool stuff on the mobile web, but one thing that is still pretty difficult is dealing with photos. Android has supported access to the device camera via the File API since version 3.0 and iOS opened it up last Fall with iOS 6. Allowing […]
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Adding cursor swipe to the Firefox OS keyboard
In this article we will take a look at how to approach adding features to a core component in the system such as the input keyboard. It turns out it is pretty easy! Before we start, take a look at this concept video from Daniel Hooper to get an idea of what we want to […]
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Announcing Firefox OS App Workshops
Madrid, Bogotá, Warsaw & Beyond Firefox OS phones will be available to consumers in several countries this summer, and they will be looking for great apps to install from Firefox Marketplace. If you know how to build mobile app experiences with HTML5 and JavaScript, we’re looking for you—especially if you’d like to develop apps in […]
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Making WebRTC Simple with conversat.io
WebRTC is awesome, but it’s a bit unapproachable. Last week, my colleagues and I at &yet released a couple of tools we hope will help make it more tinkerable and pose a real risk of actually being useful. As a demo of these tools, we very quickly built a simple product called conversat.io that lets […]
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Capturing – Improving Performance of the Adaptive Web
Responsive design is now widely regarded as the dominant approach to building new websites. With good reason, too: a responsive design workflow is the most efficient way to build tailored visual experiences for different device screen sizes and resolutions. Responsive design, however, is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to creating a […]
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Font Inspector and <time> and <data> elements – Firefox Development Highlights
Time for another look at the latest developments with Firefox. This is part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). Font Inspector A Font Inspector is now available in the Firefox DevTools. In the Firefox Inspector, a “Fonts” panel […]
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Building User-Extensible Webapps with Local
In an interview with Andrew Binstock in 2012, Alan Kay described the browser as “a joke.” If that surprises you, you’ll be glad to know that Mr. Binstock was surprised as well. Part of the problem Kay pointed out is well-known: feature-set. Browsers are doing today what word-processors and presentation tools have done for decades. […]