Posts in: Firefox
- On the fairness of browser speed
- We’re going to do a baseline JIT for Firefox 4. It’s not done yet, and it hasn’t landed in any tree yet, so nobody’s tested it. It’s gonna give similar performance characteristics to Chrome. But we’re also gonna do tracing on top of that. What we discovered, is that for a lot of applications, especially [...] [9 Jul 2010]
- Links for 2010-05-17
- Two web development links for your enjoyment. FormData interface coming to Firefox An overview of the FormData object of XMLHttpRequest, and how you will soon be able to use it in Firefox. From Hacks.Mozilla.Org. Dealing With the Dreaded ‘Flash of Unstyled Text‘ Tips for mitigating, even eliminating the appearance of unstyled text when using @font-face. [...] [17 May 2010]
- On Apple’s iPad, HTML5, and the future of Flash
- So Apple announced the iPad, and it won’t support Flash. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Neither the iPhone nor iPod Touch support Flash. Indeed most mobile platforms don’t (yet) support Flash. Even the smartest of smart phones have limited processing power and storage space compared to laptops and desktops. According to Steve Jobs, Apple doesn’t [...] [4 Feb 2010]
- On bringing clarity to privacy policies
- If Privacy Icons become widely adopted (and I think Mozilla is in a unique position to help make that happen) then the correlation of good companies using the icons and bad companies not using the icons becomes rather strong. If a privacy policy doesn’t include any icons it’s synonymous with that policy making no guarantees [...] [13 Jan 2010]
- Firefox 3.6 to support multiple file input, File API
- Firefox 3.6 supports multiple file input. This new capability allows you to get several files as input at once, using standard technologies. This is a big improvement, since you used to be constrained to one file at a time, or needed to use a third party (proprietary) application. This will be particularly useful, for example, [...] [10 Dec 2009]
- Firefox: Change ‘Clear Private Data’ defaults
- Sometimes when developing and testing a site, you need to clear your browser’s cache. Clearing the cache is particularly important when testing SWF files. Browsers tend to hold on to those like a pitbull on a chew toy. Firefox makes it easy to clear your cache with its Clear Private Data feature (Tools > Clear [...] [24 Jun 2009]
- Debugging Flash applications with Firefox extensions
- Using ExternalInterface and Firebug Lately, the day job has had me busting booty on a Flash/ActionScript project that makes considerable use of the ExternalInterface class. ExternalInterface allows Flash to communicate with its HTML container using JavaScript. It’s a groovy feature, but one that changes the development process a bit. Unlike straight-up Flash development, ExternalInterface requires [...] [1 May 2009]
- JavaScript in Firefox 3.1 will be wicked fast
- John Resig of jQuery fame, has a post about a huge performance boost coming to Firefox 3.1: TraceMonkey. TraceMonkey, Resig explains, uses a computing technique known as trace trees (PDF) which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey, Firefox’s current rendering engine. What does this mean? As Resig explains: It means that JavaScript is no [...] [24 Aug 2008]
- The Pencil Project, Prism and the browser as platform
- The Pencil Project extension brings the power of prototyping and simple GUI development to Firefox 3. It takes advantage of Firefox’s Gecko rendering engine for an easy-to-use application for making layouts. You can import bitmap images, add rich text or plain text, and when you’re done, export your drawing as a PNG file. One downside: [...] [24 Jul 2008]
- Web Standards Project releases Acid3
- Three years after the Acid2 test was released, the WaSP has developed Acid3. What’s Acid? It’s a reference test designed to help browser developers determine whether they are complying with W3C specifications, and how well they handle invalid code. Acid1 and Acid2 tested for compliance with CSS 1 and CSS 2 specifications. Acid3 also tests [...] [3 Mar 2008]