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• Mozilla Hacks gets a new Editor

  Almost three and a half years ago I wrote my first article for Mozilla Hacks and have been the Editor since September 2012. As the face and caretaker of this blog for such a long time, having published 350 posts in two years, I want to take the opportunity to ...

  Posted December 4, 2014 by Robert Nyman [Editor]

• Firebug 3 & Multiprocess Firefox (e10s)

  Firebug 3 alpha was announced couple of weeks ago. This version represents the next generation of Firebug built on top of Firefox native developer tools. There are several reasons why having Firebug built on top of native developer tools in Firefox is an advantage — one of them is tight ...

  Posted December 3, 2014 by Honza

• MetricsGraphics.js – a lightweight graphics library based on D3

  MetricsGraphics.js is a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data. It provides a simple way to produce common types of graphics in a principled and consistent way. The library supports line charts, scatterplots, histograms, barplots and data tables, as well as ...

  Posted December 1, 2014 by Ali Almossawi

• Save the Web – Be a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow

  This is a critical time in the evolution of the Web. Its core ethos of being free and open is at risk with too little interoperability and threats to privacy, security, and expression from governments throughout the world. To protect the Web, we need more people with technical expertise to ...

  Posted November 26, 2014 by Hannah Kane

• Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site – part 2.

  Make a simple app work for others too. This is a continuation of a previous tutorial. Story I’ve got two kids with a different school plans. We’re using iOS and Android devices to follow them. Others have seen the benefits and would like to have such apps as well. What ...

  Posted November 25, 2014 by Piotr Zalewa