Firefox
Mouse-based Ubiquity: A Prototype and a Failure
Weve been watching over the last little while as the Humanized crew has leveraged their experience with Enso to create Ubiquity, an in-development command-line interface for the browser. But what abo ....... read more
12 days ago
FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension
John Resig and Jan Odvarko have announced something pretty darn cool, FireUnit.
FireUnit provides a simple JavaScript API for doing simple test logging and viewing within a new tab of Firebug.
T ....... read more
19 days ago
Creating Custom Protocol Handlers With HTML 5 and Firefox
Via Myk Melez comes word that Firefox 3 supports HTML 5 web protocol handlers, which I had not realized before. These are really nifty:
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window.navigator.registerProtocolHandl ....... read more
Thu,
20 Nov 2008
Firefox 3.1 to support HTML 5 video and audio
Firefox 3.1 now includes support for the HTML 5 video and audio tags. A nice new article just went up on using these on the Mozilla Developer portal. Firefox 3.1 currently supports the Ogg format, but ....... read more
Mon,
27 Oct 2008
Firefox 3 and XML
Ive been delving back into the gnarly world of XML on the web lately and surprised to see whats changed and what hasnt. Coming up to speed on whats new in this part of the Ajaxian world, I found a ....... read more
Mon,
20 Oct 2008
MozAfterPaint: Being able to get a callback event on repaint
John Resig put together a nice usage of MozAfterPaint, the new Firefox event that will call back letting you know when a repaint operation has happened:
The event object contains two properties: .c ....... read more
Tue,
14 Oct 2008
Firefox 3.1 beta: Geolocation, @font-face, Video and Audio, XHR++, and TraceMonkey
Isn't it great that a browser point release these days adds so many features? We are starting to see this from Firefox, Opera, WebKit and others, and it is exciting!
The Firefox 3.1 beta 1 release has ....... read more
Wed,
15 Oct 2008
input type=camera to give us a simple way to integrate to Webcams
There are a substantial number of iPhone apps that tie into the builtin native components such as the camera.
Brad Lassey has been hacking on Fennec (the Mozilla mobile browser) as well as Firefox its ....... read more
Thu,
25 Sep 2008
SVG Effects on HTML
Sticking with SVG news&. Robert OCallahan of Mozilla has shown SVG effects for HTML:
A while back, I announced work on applying SVG effects to HTML content. The idea is to make the SVG ?clip-path? ....... read more
Wed,
17 Sep 2008
Gecko and WebKit in 2008
WebKit gets all of the love these days. Its the skinny little brother that gets all of the hot dates. It is easy to think that Gecko is complex, but there is nuance to the tale, and Ars brings that n ....... read more
Wed,
10 Sep 2008
Firefox implements 3 CSS properties: text-shadow, -moz-box-shadow and -moz-column-rule
Michael Ventnor has blogged about the new support for text-shadow, -moz-box-shadow and -moz-column-rule which follows on with Safari and Opera. The subtle effects really add a great touch when NOT us ....... read more
Tue,
02 Sep 2008
Ubiquity: Quicksilver of the Firefox browser
Aza Raskin and the Mozilla Labs team have launched Ubiquity the command line tool that they have been talking about for awhile.
Ubiquity is "experiment into connecting the Web with language in an att ....... read more
Wed,
27 Aug 2008
Firebug 1.2: The final release is out there
John has announced the Firebug 1.2 final release. As well as just supporting Firefox 3, there are some quality improvements:
The Script panel (the JavaScript debugger), the Net panel (network moni ....... read more
Tue,
26 Aug 2008
JavaScript JIT: The Dream Gets Closer (in Firefox)
For years, many of us have been salivating over the idea of JITed JavaScript in the browser. Adobes JITing Flash VM showed a preview of tremendous speed gains to be had, but weve had to wait until ....... read more
Fri,
22 Aug 2008
Mozilla creates the concept cars of the Web
The video above is a concept called Aurora, created by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. Give it a play and you will see his vision for a very visual immersive, space-age-like environment that ....... read more
Tue,
05 Aug 2008
Neat Firefox Video SVG Tricks
Chris Double recently announced that Firefox is edging closer to supporting the Video and Audio elements; the front-end code is checked into the trunk and the back-end video decoders are close behind. ....... read more
Tue,
22 Jul 2008
The Pencil Project
José Jeria pointed us to a great looking XUL application that allows you to sketch GUI's and then export them to PNG:
With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excel ....... read more
Tue,
08 Jul 2008
eval(?foo=a?, obj.fn); How you will be private in Firefox 3.1
Peter realized that the eval(string, scope) support in Firefox meant that the private pattern could be gotten around and developers came out saying doh!” Mozilla was quick on the case, and Firef ....... read more
Wed,
02 Jul 2008
Mozilla Experiments with Applying SVG Effects to HTML
It seems so obvious once you think about it, but Rob O'Callahan from Mozilla took us by surprise in his blog post demonstrating his experimental branch of Gecko that allows you to apply SVG effects to ....... read more
Wed,
04 Jun 2008
Having a Tamarin trace a Spidermonkey
David Mandelin has posted about Tracehydra, which is the idea that the traced based JIT engine that is being worked on as part of Tamarin could be hooked up to Spidermonkey.
Tracehydra would be the ....... read more
Mon,
19 May 2008