Found 493 results for “html5”
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Firefox 4 Beta 2 is here – Welcome CSS3 transitions
As we have explained before, Mozilla is now making more frequent updates to our beta program. So here it is, Firefox Beta 2 has just been released, 3 weeks after Beta 1. Firefox 4 Beta 1 already brought a large amount of new features (see the Beta 1 feature list). So what’s new for web […]
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Firefox 4 beta 1 is here – what's in it for web developers?
Today we’re releasing the first beta-quality version of Firefox 4, which starts us down the path to a final release of Firefox 4. We’re handling this beta differently than we’ve done other releases. In previous betas we’ve made milestone-like releases. For this beta we’ll be making more frequent updates during the beta program. So if […]
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HTML5 adoption stories: box.net and html5 drag and drop
This is a guest post from Tomas Barreto, a developer who works at box.net. They recently adopted HTML5 drag and drop as a way to share files with other people using new features in Firefox. The included video is a pitch for the feature and service, but shows how easy it is to do simple […]
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Firefox 4: An early walk-through of IndexedDB
Web developers already have localStorage, which is used for client side storage of simple key-value pairs. This alone doesn’t address the needs of many web applications for structured storage and indexed data. Mozilla is working on a structured storage API with indexing support called IndexedDB, and we will have some test builds in the next […]
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Beyond HTML5: Database APIs and the Road to IndexedDB
IndexedDB is an evolving web standard for the storage of significant amounts of structured data in the browser and for high performance searches on this data using indexes. Mozilla has submitted substantial technical feedback on the specification, and we plan to implement it in Firefox 4. We spoke to prominent web developers about evolving an […]
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upcoming changes to the viewport meta tag for firefox mobile
This is a guest post by Matt Brubeck who works on the Firefox Mobile team. The upcoming release of Mobile Firefox (Fennec) 1.1 features improved support for the <meta name="viewport"> tag. Previous version of Fennec supported the width, height, and initial-scale viewport properties, but had problems with some sites designed for iPhone and Android browsers. […]
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Firefox, YouTube and WebM
Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla’s support for the VP8 codec: 1. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. VP8 is a high-quality video codec that Google acquired when they purchased the company On2. The VP8 codec represents a vast improvement in quality-per-bit over Theora and is […]
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Firefox 4: -moz-any() selector grouping
This is a re-post from David Baron’s blog. This feature has landed in Mozilla Central (trunk) and only available with a Firefox Nightly Build for the time being. Last night I landed support for :-moz-any() selector grouping. This allows providing alternatives between combinators, rather than having to repeat the entire selector for once piece that’s […]
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Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG, speed and more
This is a guest post from Henri Sivonen, who has been working on Firefox’s new HTML5 parser. The HTML parser is one of the most complicated and sensitive pieces of a browser. It controls how your HTML source is turned into web pages and as such changes to it are rare and need to be […]
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Revitalizing Caching
Apparently, there are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and the naming of things (or so Phil Karlton’s dictum goes). Earlier this month, we invited representatives of Twitter, Facebook, SproutCore, Palm’s webOS, Microsoft’s “Office On The Web”, Yahoo, and Google to talk to us about the former problem (amongst other things), though […]