Found 493 results for “html5”
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Shiva – More than a RESTful API to your music collection
Music for me is not only part of my daily life, it is an essential part. It helps me concentrate, improves my mood, distracts me and/or helps me relax. This is true for most (if not all) people.The lack of music or the wrong selection of tunes can have the complete opposite effect, it has […]
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Firefox OS support lands in EnyoJS 2.2
Originally the app framework for HP webOS, the Enyo framework has since evolved into a full-featured cross-platform cross-device HTML5 framework for the modern web developer. Following the philosophy of reusing code and rapid quality development, Enyo uses an object-oriented encapsulation model, where you build components you can move around, extend upon, and reuse in a […]
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Simplifying audio in the browser
The last few years have seen tremendous gains in the capabilities of browsers, as the latest HTML5 standards continue to get implemented. We can now render advanced graphics on the canvas, communicate in real-time with WebSockets, access the local filesystem, create offline apps and more. However, the one area that has lagged behind is audio. […]
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Mozilla at Mobile World Congress & WIPJam
It’s getting close to the end of February, and Mozilla is once again gearing up for Mobile World Congress (MWC). Last year, we made a splash talking about HTML5 and Boot to Gecko, and this year we’re back and bigger than ever, with a booth in the AppPlanet hall where we will be doing a […]
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Firefox OS Building Blocks to the rescue
Some months ago we started thinking how could we reuse visual components inside Firefox OS, both to help designers create new apps in a consistent way and also to help developers share some markup. The UX team reviewed hundreds of generated screens to create a set of all components called Common Controls (Kudos to Sergi […]
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Cross-browser camera capture with getUserMedia/WebRTC
Overview With Firefox adding support for getUserMedia, three of the major desktop browsers now have the ability to get data from cameras without the use of plugins. As it’s still early days, however, the implementations differ slightly between browsers. Below is an example of how to work around these differences and a script to do […]
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Getting started with Open Web Apps – why and how
We’ve been talking a lot about Open Web Apps, Firefox OS and more here lately, and I wanted to cover both how to get started, and, maybe more importantly, why. Why a web app? If we look at the climate for mobile development, it has usually come down to a choice where developers had to […]
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Websecurify – Experiences & Technology Choices
When I launched @websecurify years ago I wrote a lot of JavaScript, native code and XUL but today the technology combo that I use in Websecurify is made of a custom language compiled to JavaScript that sits on top of the modern HTML5 stack that runs inside your normal browser. Sounds crazy but it somehow […]
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Power Polygon – HTML5 slides with theming and much more
Since 2007 or so, I’ve been giving talks on my web browser, although browsers did not offer much of the current technology back then! Of course, each talk of mine was based on a new HTML page which isn’t very practical! Power Polygon was then born! And died a few months after that! I kept […]
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Announcing the winners of the December 2012 Dev Derby!
Last month, some of the most creative web developers out there showed us what they could do with Offline web technologies in the December Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our three judges–Dave Rupert, Eric Shepherd and (filling in for Christian Heilmann this month) yours truly–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not […]