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• Introducing @counter-styles

  Introduction The characters that indicate items in a list are called counters — they can be bullets or numbers. They are defined using the list-style-type CSS property. CSS1 introduced a list of predefined styles to be used as counter markers. The initial list was then slightly extended with addition of ...

  Posted February 12, 2015 by Saurabh / Jsx

• Exploring object-fit

  On web documents, a common problem concerns the display of different sized images (or videos) in the same place. Perhaps you are writing a dynamic gallery app that accepts user submissions. You can’t guarantee that everyone will upload images of exactly the same aspect ratio, so what do you do? ...

  Posted February 10, 2015 by Chris Mills

• Embedding an HTTP Web Server in Firefox OS

  Nearing the end of last year, Mozilla employees were gathered together for a week of collaboration and planning. During that week, a group was formed to envision what the future of Firefox OS might be surrounding a more P2P-focused Web. In particular, we’ve been looking at harnessing technologies to collectively ...

  Posted February 9, 2015 by Justin D'Arcangelo

• Open Web Apps feedback: Consolidating our channels

  In August 2014 we announced the opening of a new feedback channel for web apps on UserVoice. It has led to some good discussions and here are a few highlights: This post showed the importance of the nascent FileSystem API. A suggestion about background services reinforced the need for something ...

  Posted February 6, 2015 by Andrew Overholt

• Introducing node-firefox

  NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here’s a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help you superturbocharge your Firefox OS app development! At Mozilla we’re always looking for ways in which we can make developers’ ...

  Posted February 5, 2015 by Soledad Penades