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• Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices

  Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one tool? We believe the Web is powerful enough to offer a Mobile Web development solution that meets these needs! Enter ...

  Posted September 11, 2014 by Dave Camp

• 350 posts on Hacks in 2 years!

  Two years ago, we made a number of changes to the Mozilla Hacks blog. Since then we’ve had over three million unique visitors and 350 quality posts in less than two years – almost one every second day! Part of these changes included: A clear focus on learning about the ...

  Posted September 10, 2014 by Robert Nyman [Editor]

• Enabling Voice Input into the Open Web and Firefox OS

  With the advent of smartphones triggered by iPhone in 2007, Touch became the primary mode of input for interacting with these devices. And now with the advent of wearables (and other hands-free technologies that existed before), Voice is becoming another key method of input. The possibilities of experiences Voice Input ...

  Posted September 9, 2014 by Sandip Kamat

• Webapplate – Maintainable web app template for Firefox OS and Chrome Apps

  There are many powerful tools and technologies surrounding the Web, and we can reuse them to develop cross platform mobile and desktop apps, especially in light of installable apps appearing on platforms such as Firefox OS. This article looks at the best way to do this, and presents Webapplate, a ...

  Posted September 4, 2014 by Fred Lin

• 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