1. Announcing the winners of the July 2013 Dev Derby!

   October 18, 2013 • by John Karahalis • Dev Derby, FileAPI • 2 comments

   This past summer, some of the most passionate and creative web developers out there innovated with the File API in our July Dev Derby contest. After sorting through the entries, an all-star cast of former judges–Peter Lubbers, Eric Shepherd, and David Walsh–decided on three winners Read more…

2. Why no FileSystem API in Firefox?

   July 5, 2012 • by Jonas Sicking • FileAPI, Firefox, IndexedDB • 117 comments

   A question that I get asked a lot is why Firefox doesn’t support the FileSystem API. Usually, but not always, they are referring specifically to the FileSystem and FileWriter specifications which Google is implementing in Chrome, and which they have proposed for standardization in W3C. Read more…

3. Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas

   February 1, 2012 • by Chris Heilmann • Canvas, Featured Demo, FileAPI, HTML5 • 6 comments

4. HTML5 APIs – Where No Man Has Gone Before! – Presentation at Gotham JS

   July 20, 2011 • by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus] • Canvas, FileAPI, HTML5, Video, Web Developers, WebGL, WebSocket • Comments off

   Last weekend I was in New York City to speak at the GothamJS conference and Mozilla also sponsored it. It was a nice event with about 200 attendees, taking place in the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. The event was one-track with 8 speakers, and personally Read more…

5. Aurora 6 is here

   May 30, 2011 • by louisremi • CSS, FileAPI, WebSocket, XMLHttpRequest • 20 comments

   What’s new in Aurora 6? The most notable addition to this new Aurora are the <progress> element, window.matchMedia API, better APIs for binary data, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of WebSockets. Aurora 6 has been published last week and can be downloaded from Read more…

6. How to resume a paused or broken file upload

   April 8, 2011 • by Simon Speich and Paul Rouget • FileAPI, Firefox, HTML5 • 18 comments

   This is a guest post written by Simon Speich. Simon is a web developer, believer in web standards and a lover of Mozilla since Mozilla 0.8 (!). Today, Simon is experimenting with the File API and the new Slice() method introduced in Firefox 4. Here Read more…

7. The shortest image uploader – ever!

   March 11, 2011 • by Paul Rouget • Demo, Drag and Drop, FileAPI, Firefox, XMLHttpRequest • 18 comments

8. How to develop a HTML5 Image Uploader

   January 5, 2011 • by Paul Rouget • Canvas, Drag and Drop, FileAPI, Firefox, HTML5, XMLHttpRequest • 40 comments

   HTML5 comes with a set of really awesome APIs. If you combine these APIs with the <canvas> element, you could create a super/modern/awesome Image Uploader. This article shows you how. All these tips work well in Firefox 4. I also describe some alternative ways to Read more…

9. Firefox 4 – FormData and the new File.url object

   July 7, 2010 • by Christopher Blizzard • FileAPI, Firefox • 20 comments

   This is a guest post from Jonas Sicking, who does much of the work inside of Gecko on content facing features. He covers FormData, which we’ve talked about before, but shows how it can connect to an important part of the File API we’ve added Read more…

10. HTML5 adoption stories: box.net and html5 drag and drop

    June 23, 2010 • by Christopher Blizzard • Device APIs, DOM, Drag and Drop, FileAPI, Firefox, HTML5, XMLHttpRequest • 12 comments

    This is a guest post from Tomas Barreto, a developer who works at box.net. They recently adopted HTML5 drag and drop as a way to share files with other people using new features in Firefox. The included video is a pitch for the feature and Read more…

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