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• Introducing Blast.js

  After releasing Velocity.js, a highly performant web animation engine, I wanted to leverage that power for typographic manipulation. The question soon arose, How could I animate one letter, one word, or one sentence at a time without bloating my HTML with wrapper elements? If I could figure this out, I ...

  Posted September 3, 2014 by Julian Shapiro

• PhoneGap Developer App preview for Firefox OS

  The cross-platform team at Mozilla is always looking for ways to improve how developers build apps with open web standards. We consider Cordova and PhoneGap to be great tools to achieve that. We are excited to work on improving support for PhoneGap by getting the PhoneGap Developer App into Firefox ...

  Posted September 2, 2014 by Rodrigo Silveira

• Black Box Driven Development in JavaScript

  Sooner or later every developer finds the beauty of the design patterns. Also, sooner or later the developer finds that most of the patterns are not applicable in their pure format. Very often we use variations. We change the well-known definitions to fit in our use cases. I know that ...

  Posted August 27, 2014 by Krasimir Tsonev

• Building Interactive HTML5 Videos

  The HTML5 <video> element makes embedding videos into your site as easy as embedding images. And since all major browsers support <video> since 2011, it’s also the most reliable way to get your moving pictures seen by people. A more recent addition to the HTML5 family is the <track> element. ...

  Posted August 26, 2014 by Jeroen Wijering

• Launching Open Web Apps feedback channels – let us know your ideas for the web

  About three months ago we launched a feedback channel for the Firefox Developer Tools, and since it was a great success, we’re happy announce a new one for Open Web Apps! For Developer Tools, we have, and keep on getting, excellent suggestions at http://mzl.la/devtools, which has lead to features coming ...

  Posted August 20, 2014 by Robert Nyman [Editor]