Posts in: Firefox
- 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 support [...] [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 you [...] [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 longer confined [...] [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: it [...] [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 for [...] [3 Mar 2008]
- Sniffing users’ browser history and Firefox extensions to stop it
- Go read Niall Kennedy’s post about using JavaScript to sniff a user’s browser history. It’s an inventive use of your user’s browser history, though I suspect it could potentially be used — in combination with cookies and logins — to detect which of your users are also regular porn surfers. With that little bit of fearmongering out [...] [8 Feb 2008]
- Mozilla is readying for the mobile web
- Sure the iPhone has its spiffy little web browser / SDK (Safari), but that mean bupkiss for the rest of us. What can we do? That’s where Mozilla comes in. Via Ajaxian: Mike Schroepfer’s post Mozilla and Mobile. According to Schroepfer: Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2. This means we [...] [10 Oct 2007]