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  1. An easier way of using polyfills

    • by and • HTML5, JavaScript, Node.js, Performance, Testing, Tools • 11 comments

    Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we’ve built a new service to make it easier. We’d like to invite you to use it, Read more…

  2. Blend4Web: the Open Source Solution for Online 3D

    • by and • asm.js, Audio, HTML5, Tools, WebGL • 4 comments

    Half year ago Blend4Web was first released publicly. In this article I’ll show what Blend4Web is, how it is evolved and and how it can be used for web development. What Is Blend4Web? In short, Blend4Web is an open source framework for creating 3D web Read more…

  3. PhoneGap Developer App preview for Firefox OS

    • by • Apps, Debugging, Featured Article, Firefox OS, Tools • 9 comments

    The cross-platform team at Mozilla is always looking for ways to improve how developers build apps with open web standards. We consider Cordova and PhoneGap to be great tools to achieve that. We are excited to work on improving support for PhoneGap by getting the Read more…

  4. Resources for HTML5 game developers

    • by , and • asm.js, Debugging, Featured Article, Games, HTML5, Tools • 9 comments

    Today we released Firefox 31 and it offers a couple of new features that help HTML5 game developers to code and debug sophisticated games. In addition Mozilla blogged about the first commercial games leveraging asm.js, Dungeon Defenders Eternity and Cloud Raiders both of which were Read more…

  5. Introducing PredictionIO

    • by and • Tools • 8 comments

    PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server for software developers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. Building a production-grade engine to predict users’ preferences and personalize content for them used to be time-consuming. Not anymore with PredictionIO’s latest v0.7 Read more…

  6. Technical Blogger? Mozillian? Here's a plugin for you to tell us about your work!

    • by • Learning, MDN, Mission:Mozilla, Mozilla, Tools • 12 comments

    One great thing about Mozilla is that we want people to have a voice. Our products give people a voice on the web without being spied on. As a Mozillian, you don’t have to go through various levels of red tape before you are allowed Read more…

  7. New Features in Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 24

    • by and • Debugging, Developer Tools, Firefox Aurora, Tools, Web Developers • 11 comments

    Releases have recently rolled, and there are a slew of new features coming to the developer tools in Firefox 24. Firefox 24 is currently in our alpha channel Firefox Aurora, and will hit the main release channel on September 17th, 2013. A little alitteration leads Read more…

  8. How to Spread The Word About Your Code

    • by and • Tools, Web Developers • 13 comments

    You spent an entire weekend building a library, jQuery plugin, build tool, or other great piece of code you wanted to share far and wide, but after some tweets and a failed attempt to make the front page of Hacker News, your creation languished, unloved, Read more…

  9. Much simpler web deployment ahead: Harp.io

    • by • Interviews, Tools, WebFWD • 2 comments

    There is a gap in the toolset of aspiring web makers and professional web developers at the moment: simple deployment. While it is easy to create a web site, set up a blog or even build your first HTML5 app, the deployment is still not Read more…