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For those of you who can never seem to remember that one password, or dread typing your full mailing address into those small form fields on your phone and tablet, today’s Chrome for Android stable update is for you. You can now access your saved passwords and autofill entries on your phone and tablet when you’ve signed in to Chrome, just like you have been able to do on your desktop and laptop computers.
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This article covers a Web project that rethinks how TV appliances can be used in public spaces for real-time content and interaction with social networks. Tela Social is a powered by Mozilla system application that runs in Linux appliances and creates a visual experience that presents custom and interactive content with real time data using the Web. It’s different of a standard kiosk and far from the personal browser experience because it’s not tailored for an individual. Instead, it explores how online data can be used to provide impact to users in common areas. Read more

This is episode 9, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Now it’s time to delve into localization!

Did you know that Mozilla’s products and services are localized into into as many as 90 languages?

The following are just a few examples of localization:

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Today, we are updating modern.IE with enhanced tools and resources to help you test your sites for modern browsers like Internet Explorer 9 and 10, while also helping you support older versions of browsers. These enhancements address the most common feedback, suggestions, and requests that we have received from enthusiastic users since introducing the site in January.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Featuring Wil Clouser.

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To help webmasters manage the verified owners for their websites in Webmaster Tools, we’ve recently introduced three new features:

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Webmasters have several ways to keep their sites' content out of Google's search results. Today, as promised, we're providing a way for websites to opt out of having their content that Google has crawled appear on Google Shopping, Advisor, Flights, Hotels, and Google+ Local search.

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Since we launched the Webmaster Academy in English back in May 2012, its educational content has been viewed well over 1 million times.
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More than 9 months ago, we were working on a web game, having all the nice HTML5 stuff like Canvas, WebSocket, CSS3. We were playing a lot with experimental code in NodeJS and Redis. We had all the nice scripts and plugins and quite a good architecture to make the game possible.

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The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) today announced the Workshop on Referencing and Applying WCAG 2.0 in Different Contexts on 23 May 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. Participants will explore approaches for using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and its supporting resources in different policy settings and contexts. The Workshop is open to policy-makers, users, developers, accessibility experts, researchers, and others interested in adopting, referencing, and applying WCAG 2.0. If you are interested in participating, please submit a statement of interest by 23 April 2013. Read more

Role Attribute 1.0 is now a completed Web Standard, published today as a W3C Recommendation. Role Attribute is an XML attribute that allows authors to add semantic information to documents. Role Attribute supports WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical specification for making dynamic, interactive web content accessible to people with disabilities. (2013-03-28) Read more

WebRTC is getting great press lately for it’s amazing applications in voice and video communication. But did you know that WebRTC also has support for peer-to-peer data? Read more

Members of the Mozilla Security community will be participating in an “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” even on Reddit tomorrow, 27-March-2013. We anticipate to run this for 24 hours from March 27th at 6:00 am PDT through March 28th at 6:00 am PDT.

Within Mozilla our teams depend heavily on our community handle everything involved in Information Security research &  development; if you would like to learn more please come out and ask us the questions you want to know the answer to!

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As you may have noticed, this site has been redesigned recently, and I mentioned in the announcement that I'd talk about some of the work that went into the process. So in this first instalment of what might be a two or three-part series, I'm going to talk about some of what's going on under the hood in (the) ExpressionEngine. In the other parts, I'll cover topics relating to...

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To celebrate the relaunch of the site, we're running a special during September. Anyone who books any type of work, whether it be some site maintenance or updates, a redesign, or a completely new site (feel free to pass the message on to people you know as well) before the end of September will receive a 20% discount (up to a maximum of $500).* ExpressionEngine upgrades If you have a...

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Why yes we have, thanks for noticing. After about six years, several attempts including a couple of false starts, and some that only got part of the job done, this site has finally been redesigned. Tyssen Design is now in its third incarnation since having first launched in 2005 (you can see screenshots of the previous two versions below), and the biggest changes are making the site mobile...

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In an email to the WHATWG mailing list Ian Hickson explained how the relationship between the WHATWG and W3C effort around HTML has evolved. It is recommended reading if you want to know the details. In summary, we will remain focused on improving HTML and related technologies to address the needs of users, developers, and [...] Read more