A Social-aware Dashboard Experience with Gecko in Walls

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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 the same basic development model.

Announcing the winners of the February 2013 Dev Derby!

Last month, some of the most creative web developers out there pushed the limits of touch events and multi-touch interaction in the February Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our three expert judges -Franck Lecollinet, Guillaume Lecollinet, and (filling in for Craig Cook this month) yours truly-decided on three winners and two runners-up.

Short sweet doc sprint for March

This past weekend, a small band of hardy MDN contributors pitched in for the first of a monthly series of doc sprints. This sprint was organized on fairly short notice, yet a significant amount of work was accomplished.

WebRTC Data Channels for Great Multiplayer

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Adding cursor swipe to the Firefox OS keyboard ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Adding cursor swipe to the Firefox OS keyboard

Announcing Firefox OS App Workshops ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Announcing Firefox OS App Workshops

Making WebRTC Simple with conversat.io ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Making WebRTC Simple with conversat.io

Firefox Developer Tools work week wrap-up ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Last week in Sunnyvale we had the first Developer Tools work week to include the recently-integrated Jetpack team ( for a slightly different take on the week, see Paul's post. ). And what a week! I was a bit shocked by how many things I thought were just interesting ideas suddenly became real things that actually worked.

Learn and share about new topics every month on MDN ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Did you have "expand my technical knowledge" as one of your New Year's resolutions a few months ago? How's that going? How about setting aside a day, or just a few hours, once a month, to teach yourself about a topic related to Web development, and share what you've learned with others?

Building User-Extensible Webapps with Local ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

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.

Google and MPEG LA Agree, Free VP8 ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Today Google and the MPEG LA jointly announced a licensing agreement with 11 companies to protect all users of the VP8 video codec. With the agreement in place, developers can make great sites with WebM without fear of legal retribution. As a quick refresher, MPEG LA licenses the patents needed for many common, proprietary video codecs, like H.264.

Firefox OS support lands in EnyoJS 2.2 ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Firefox OS support lands in EnyoJS 2.2

Announcing the winners of the January 2013 Dev Derby! ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

This past January, creative web developers from around the world showed us what they could do with drag and drop interaction in the January Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our three new expert judges -Craig Cook, Franck Lecollinet, and Guillaume Lecollinet-decided on three winners and two runners-up.

Building A Paid App For Firefox OS ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

At first glance the Firefox Marketplace for Firefox OS may look similar to the Apple Store or Google Play Store but there is a key difference: it does not lock you into Mozilla or lock you into your F

Finding Words by Synonym with Cinnamon.js ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
? Phil Karlton

Naming things in web development is hard too, from evolving CSS classes to headers and links.