About:hacks newsletter – issue 2
Last week we sent out the second issue of about:hacks, Mozilla’s newsletter for web developers.
Here are highlights from the topics covered in this new issue:
Read moreGetFirebug.com redesign launched!
If you’ve happened across the GetFirebug.com web site recently, you’ll notice everything has a rather pleasant freshly painted smell. After a much-too-long delay, we’ve finally updated the design and layout for the official Firebug web site, and introduced a lovely new icon by our resident Iconmaster General Sean Martell.
Read moreJava is back
Opera is now using the Java Plug-in instead of native Java. Read more
Huawei selects Opera Mobile 10 as China enters 3G era
Approaching 10.50 beta for Windows
Please focus mostly on potential showstoppers. If there are any bugs that you believe are important enough to block a beta release, let us know. Take a look at the list of known issues first, though.
There likely will be Mac and Unix snapshots next week, but right now we're working overtime to get Windows ready for beta. Read more
Security Issues With Two Experimental Add-Ons
Two add-ons in the experimental section of addons.mozilla.org were found to be containing malware. These were not originally detected with the anti-malware scanning tools that we have been using. We have since increased the number of scanning tools, and will be taking additional steps to minimize the risk of further incidents. Full details of the issue and recommended mitigation steps are here on the AMO blog:
Read moreSkin fixes, Unite, and then some
We also have a new feature for you.
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. Read more
Firefox 3.6 feedback
Firefox 3.6 was released on Jan 21st and has already been downloaded more than 35 million times! It features a faster JavaScript engine, faster DOM performance and a bunch of new HTML5 features. Read more
Connect to the world from your car
Opera browser tops the charts in Ukraine according to gemiusRanking
an HTML5 offline image editor and uploader application
Many web applications use image uploaders: image hosting websites, blog publishing applications, social networks, among many others. Such uploaders have limitations: you can’t upload more than one file at a time and you can’t edit the image before sending it. A plugin is the usual workaround for uploading more than one image, and image modifications are usually done on the server side, which can make the editing process more cumbersome.
Read moreW3C SVG Working Group Update for January 2010
In this post, I want to share some examples of the progress going on in the SVG Working Group. Microsoft recently joined the SVG Working Group, and other members (Mozilla, Apple and Opera among others) welcomed us warmly. Read more
Nate Chapin is now a WebKit reviewer!
Nate got his start in WebKit with helping to upstream Javascript bindings for the Chromium port into WebKit. During that work, he learned much about WebKit style as well as getting to know the bindings quite well. Since then, he continued to do a prodigious amount with the bindings and improved them in many ways. In addition, he also added noreferrer support and fixed bugs in a variety of areas such as the loader and plugin scripting.
Read moreHello, summary and figcaption elements
This weekend saw the minting of not one but two new elements. The summary element (not the summary attribute on the table element) goes inside the details element:
Read moreNew snapshot
As you have noticed we are fixing tons of bugs, so now a new build for you guys to test.
One new thing to notice is the new zoom control (only on win yet, but will come on other platforms soon) :)
Don't forget to report bugs in the bug wizard.. Read more
Accelerated process
ClassList in Firefox 3.6
This article was writt by Anthony Ricaud, French OpenWeb enthusiast.
Why you need classListA dynamic web application usually needs visual feedback from its inner mechanism or needs to display different visual elements based on users’ actions.
Read moreGot Data? Need Search? Use Sphinx
So you’ve built your web application, and people are putting data in it, but how do they get that data back out? Often, they find data by searching. MySQL provides a searchable full-text index, but it has several limitations:
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