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  1. ServiceWorkers and Firefox

    • by , and • DOM, Featured Article, Offline, ServiceWorkers, WebAPI • 4 comments

    Since early 2013, Mozillians have been involved with the design of the Service Worker. Thanks to work by Google, Samsung, Mozilla, and others, this exciting new feature of the web platform has evolved to the point that it is being implemented in various web browser Read more…

  2. localForage: Offline Storage, Improved

    • by , and • Featured Article, IndexedDB, localStorage, Offline • 33 comments

    Web apps have had offline capabilities like saving large data sets and binary files for some time. You can even do things like cache MP3 files. Browser technology can store data offline and plenty of it. The problem, though, is that the technology choices for Read more…

  3. Interview with Parashuram Narasimhan, winner of the Offline Dev Derby

    • by • Dev Derby, Offline • Comments off

    Parashuram Narasimhan won the Offline Dev Derby with The conference, his web utility for beating unreliable conference connectivity. Recently, I had the chance to learn more about Parashuram: his work, his ambitions, and his thoughts on the future of web development. The interview How did Read more…

  4. Introducing the Firefox OS Boilerplate App

    • by • Featured Article, Firefox OS, Offline • 36 comments

    When coming to a new platform or context, it’s always good to get a peek at some code and examples how to make things work. With Firefox OS and app development, it’s just the web with a few additions. Before here at Mozilla Hacks, we’ve Read more…

  5. Comic Gen – a canvas-run comic generator

    • by • Canvas, Dev Derby, Offline • 2 comments

    The first time I wanted to participate on Dev Derby was on the May 2012 challenge, where the rules were that you should use websockets. At that time I thought that I could use NodeJS and SocketIO. But the time kept running and I ended Read more…

  6. Offline First – better HTML5 User Experience, Prefetching resources, Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet – Hacks Weekly

    • by • HTML5, Mozilla Hacks Weekly, Offline • 1 comment

    This week Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team suggest reading about Offline First – A better HTML5 User Experience, Prefetching resources, the Ultimate Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet and Read more…

  7. Hacking Firefox OS

    • by • Featured Article, Firefox Nightly, Firefox OS, HTML5, Offline • 12 comments

    This blog post is written by Luca Greco, a Mozilla community member who loves to hack, especially on JavaScript and other web-related technologies. A lot of developers are already creating mobile applications using Web technologies (powered by containers like Phonegap/Cordova as an example), usually to Read more…

  8. People of HTML5 – Remy Sharp

    • by • Audio, HTML5, IndexedDB, JavaScript, Offline, People of HTML5, Performance, Standards, Video, Web Developers • 3 comments

    HTML5 needs spokespeople to work. There are a lot of people out there who took on this role, and here at Mozilla we thought it is a good idea to introduce some of them to you with a series of interviews and short videos. The Read more…

  9. Revitalizing Caching

    • by • Firefox, HTML5, Offline, Performance, Standards • 23 comments

    Apparently, there are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and the naming of things (or so Phil Karlton’s dictum goes). Earlier this month, we invited representatives of Twitter, Facebook, SproutCore, Palm’s webOS, Microsoft’s “Office On The Web”, Yahoo, and Google to talk Read more…

  10. an HTML5 offline image editor and uploader application HTML5

    • by • Drag and Drop, Featured Demo, FileAPI, Firefox, HTML5, Offline, XMLHttpRequest • 44 comments