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Eight Years of Firefox
Eight years ago today, Mozilla launched the first version of Firefox. We had the audacity to believe that we could change things. We believed that a commun
More HTML5 APIs
This blog post explores many HTML5 APIs, including Fullscreen API, Page Visibility API, getUserMedia API, Battery API, and Link Prefetching!
GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes
Since SpaceFM is entering the GTK3 realm (SpaceFM can now be built on anything from GTK 2.18 “I won’t give up my lenny!” thru GTK 3.6.x), I’m starting to hear more feedback …
Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the OS, WebAPIs
In August, Mozilla's Director of Research Andreas Gal, and one of the lead engineers for Firefox OS, Philipp von Weitershausen, gave a couple of presentations in Brazil about Firefox OS. ...
Whatever It Takes: Visualizations in E-mail with d3.js
Content comes in many shapes and sizes, and proving the value of the content that your business produces is a challenge that many marketers face today.
HTML5 Mythbusting
The ongoing discussion about the readiness of HTML5 is based on a lot of false assumptions. These lead to myths about HTML5 that get uttered once and then continuously repeated ...
Introducing the new compose in Gmail
Posted by Phil Sharp, Product Manager We're always trying to make Gmail faster and easier to use, so today we're introducing a completely ...
Bootstrap 2.2.0 released
Aww yeah, our first release since leaving Twitter is here with Bootstrap 2.2.0! We originally planned to release this as 2.1.2, but given the timing and scope…
Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
Firefox and “save for later” All browsers support two functions: searching and revisiting. My research questions whether constructs like bookmarks really are the right model to support revisiting. I worked ...
Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake
Back when Firefox 2 was released (six years ago this week!), the Internet Explorer team started a friendly tradition of sending Mozilla a cake as congratulations. This continued for Firefox 3 and Firefox 4 . After Firefox switched from major releases once or twice a year to incremental updates every six weeks, they…
Windows 8 Doesn’t Want Your App. Try Again Later
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OOCSS + Sass = The best way to CSS
Object-oriented CSS is awesome. But littering your markup with non-semantic classes is not awesome. Those classes sprinkled all over your HTML are going to change, and that’s not gonna be fun. But if you combine OOCSS and Sass you get the best of both worlds: modular CSS without bloated, hard-to-maintain HTML.
Google Homepage Size Over Time
This afternoon, I looked at the source of the main Google page with my browser. It spans my whole monitor and takes 15 pushes of the scroll-wheel to see it all. Whither minimalism? Off to the Wayba…
GET /browser.exe
Jon Howell dreams of a new Internet. In this new Internet, cross-browser compatibility checking is a distant memory and new features can be unilaterally be added to browsers without having to convince the world to upgrade first. The idea which makes this Internet possible is so crazy, it just might work.