Over the past several years, Mozilla's
collection of developer documentation for its own web browsers has turned into a wiki-editable reference of web standards for developers working with
all browsers, hosting a comprehensive, no-nonsense reference of
HTML,
HTML5,
CSS,
JavaScript, the
DOM, and
more. If you find yourself turning to this reference frequently,
dochub provides instant access to Mozilla's documentation for any HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or DOM-related topic. If you're worried that a fancy new standard might not work in an older browser,
canIuse will tell you exactly how many browsers will support that new standard. Still want to use that shiny new standard?
Modernizr and
yepnope will let you detect missing features, and load
tiny bits of code to make old browsers support the latest HTML5 hotness.
[via the carefully-curated selections of
JavaScript and
HTML5 Weekly, run by
MetaFilter's own wackybrit]
posted by schmod
on Dec 7, 2011 -
23 comments
We expect even more rapid innovation in the web media platform in the coming year and are focusing our investments in those technologies that are developed and licensed based on open web principles. To that end, we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project. Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for other high-quality open codecs in the future. Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies. - Google's Chrome is will be joining Firefox in
no longer licensing the MPEG-LA H.264 video codec favoured by Apple and Microsoft for use in the HTML5 <video> tag (
previously).
Not everyone is seeing this as a good thing.
posted by Artw
on Jan 13, 2011 -
145 comments
Do you use RSS? Not many do, apparently. Goodbye, then, RSS button in the location bar of Firefox 4 (
Bugzilla entry). “
RSS is dying,” a blog hyperbolizes in response, with
retort from Asa Dotzler of Mozilla, who states the functionality is being moved to a menu item.
posted by joeclark
on Jan 3, 2011 -
98 comments
When releasing the Mozilla source code, Netscape's lawyers insisted that the code first be sanitized. In particular, "any text containing vulgar or offensive words or expressions; any text that might be slanderous or libelous to individuals and/or institutions," had to be removed.
Here is a sample of what it looked like before that occurred.
posted by Obscure Reference
on Sep 22, 2010 -
46 comments
The
<video tag>, as defined by the HTML5 spec, is an element "used for playing videos or movies". Which
codec those videos or movies are in is currently undefined, with the two contenders being the free open source
Ogg Theora and the proprietary
H.264. With the unveiling of
Internet Explorer 9 both Microsoft and Apple are supporting H.264 in their browsers, and
comparisons of the standards seem to bear out H.264 as the better of the two. However Mozilla have taken a stance against incorporating H264 into Firefox on the grounds that it is
patented and has to be licensed. Arguments are now being made
for and
against Mozilla sticking to its ideals.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball points out that Firefox already supports proprietary formats such as GIF.
Um, perhaps not the best example.
posted by Artw
on Mar 21, 2010 -
140 comments
If you want to use
Firefox but still want the alt text for web images to appear when you hover the mouse pointer over them, then you want
this.
posted by Pretty_Generic
on Nov 9, 2004 -
28 comments
Netscape DevEdge sidebar replacement. for those of you (like me) who used the old DevEdge sidebar as an essential tool in web development, the quick and easy CSS/HTML/DOM reference sidebar for mozilla has been rescued, thanks to the power of the internet wayback machine. this made my day - hope it helps some of you.
posted by caution live frogs
on Oct 22, 2004 -
3 comments
Not just another candidate Forget Arnold, let's elect the Mozilla Foundation's very own Asa, he understands the web and technology, and even has a weblog. (Oh, and he works on some browser called Mozilla...)
posted by raster
on Aug 7, 2003 -
4 comments
The name "Firebird" was chosen by Mozilla to rename their
Phoenix product. However, Firebird is also the name of a popular and long-standing open-source
database project -- and the Mozilla organization was clearly
aware of this naming conflict before making their decision.
Some feel that such an action, within the context of the open-source community, is unfair and constitutes bad etiquette, at the least. The discussion is
ongoing, but LinuxWorld reports that the Mozilla organization has deleted recent message-board comments that criticized their decision.
posted by TreeHugger
on Apr 16, 2003 -
18 comments
Blog baiting. This content-free Salon article is pointed to by News.com and chances are it will be picked up by tech weblogs within a couple of hours. Notice the presence of popular (in blogland) underdog in the title (Mozilla). The many blog references in the article body, including a gratuitious reference to the
arch-tech-weblog that presumes knowledge of said blog's moderation system. The meta implications of web media composing content so that it may be picked up by weblogs are interesting --and yes, the irony of a MeFi FPP is painfully obvious. What next?
posted by costas
on Sep 10, 2002 -
25 comments
Perhaps AOL isn't that bad. I've never liked
AOL, but this recent
article makes me want to give the company a big hug. Finally, people are stepping up to the
Microsoft juggernaut and deciding to use other means to deliever content and run their own machines. AOL is trying to cut costs by migrating from UNIX and Windows to a
Linux environment on the server-side. On the client side, they will apparently be pushing the use of
Mozilla instead of their previous default browser, Internet Explorer. This has the potential to impact the web enormously, as AOL's 30 million subscribers will soon be using Mozilla as their browser. Web designers will have to start sticking to
w3c specs instead of using MSIE-specific coding, which will hopefully force Microsoft to follow the specs more closely. Begun this browser war has. (via
/.)
posted by Hammerikaner
on Mar 11, 2002 -
43 comments
Blogzilla is a blog about, you guessed it,
Mozilla!
Why Mozilla? Because IE sucks. Agreed. I've been using Mozilla and IE interchangeably for the last month, and giving serious consideration to going Mozilla full-time.
Very serious.
posted by sillygwailo
on Feb 21, 2002 -
41 comments
Software projects are notorious for time and budget overruns (examples that come to mind include
Mozilla and the
Denver Airport baggage system). There are a large number of design methods, development processes, and programming methodologies that claim or hint at objective estimation of development schedules, project complexity, and programmer productivity. Unfortunately,
they're all bunk.
"The creation of genuinely new software has far more in common with developing a new theory of physics than it does with producing cars or watches on an assembly line."
Programmers, try telling that one to your next customer.
posted by lagado
on Nov 21, 2001 -
21 comments
(Almost) What you wanted for Christmas. A lightweight browser using the Mozilla rendering engine, solely to browse webpages, minus all the smoad of bloat thats making Mozilla so un-usable at the moment. It is just work in progress though, so some important practical features aren't implemented yet, but something to look at nonetheless.
posted by aki
on Aug 25, 2000 -
4 comments
Mozilla Savaged By Suck. Yet another high-profile site calling for the open-source quagmire that might be Netscape 6 one day to put up or shut up. No word whether some crank from Mozilla has called
Greg Knauss a Microsoft-loving son of a whore yet.
posted by solistrato
on Jul 31, 2000 -
51 comments
Netscape 6 Pre release is Official. . . Looks like Netscape caved in and released the leaked version of Communicator 6. I got it and it's identical to the leaked version posted here earlier. Which is almost identical to Mozilla M14.
BTW, does anyone else have a problem with AOL/Netscape having the entire internet develop it's newest browser through the Mozilla effort while they plan to profit from it? Especially with Mozilla's ardent open source position. Or, is it just me.
posted by Dean_Paxton
on Apr 5, 2000 -
29 comments
In case you haven't heard elsewhere, the newest
Mozilla milestone (M13) was released today. Here's
the download page, lets hope they finally get a beta launched soon.
posted by mathowie
on Jan 27, 2000 -
0 comments
