headtrackr for real-time face tracking, smartphone features you never thought of, HTML5 Forms support + more in Hacks Weekly
This week Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team suggest reading about headtrackr for real-time face tracking, smartphone features you never thought of using, Web browser support for HTML5 Forms and more!
Weekly links
If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment, contact us on Twitter or through any other means.
The picks this week are:
- Responsive Img – a jQuery Plugin for Responsive Images
- Five smartphone features you never thought of using in your apps
- Responsive Responsive Design
- 2012 Internet Trends
- Responsive Typography in Web Design: Understanding and Using
- headtrackr – A JavaScript library for real-time face tracking and head tracking
- Twitter’s Calendar of API changes
- Web browser support for HTML5 Input types, attributes and elements + CSS & JavaScript support
- “The Internet needed no treaty to come into existence” – Mozilla on ITU Governance of the Internet
The Developer Engagement team
Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team work with writing articles, documentation – such as MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) – public speaking and generally helping and informing about open technologies and Mozilla products. If you are interested in following our work, here are the team members:
- Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)
- Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd (@sheppy)
- Havi Hoffman (@freshelectrons).
- Janet Swisher (@jmswisher)
- Jean-Yves Perrier (@teoli2003)
- Jeff Griffiths (@canuckistani)
- Joe Stagner (@MisfitGeek)
- John Karahalis (@openjck)
- Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes)
- Robert Nyman (@robertnyman)
- Stormy Peter (@storming)
- Tristan Nitot (@nitot)
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The Web We Lost, Heroku Automates Automation, Why moving elements with translate() is better – Hacks Weekly
The Web We Lost, Heroku Automates Automation, Why moving elements with translate() is better and more this week from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team!
Weekly links
If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment, contact us on Twitter or through any other means.
The picks this week are:
- The Web We Lost
- Develop in the Cloud – Heroku Automates Automation for App Developers
- The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story – Facebook rebuilt in HTML5 by Sencha (webkit only):
- Remote View Controllers in iOS 6
- Toward a matrix of APIs
- Sesame best practices guide for children’s app development
- Why moving elements with translate() is better than pos:abs top/left
- Twitter archive – Twitter now allows you to download every tweet you ever made.
- New Firefox Developer Tools UI
The Developer Engagement team
Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team work with writing articles, documentation – such as MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) – public speaking and generally helping and informing about open technologies and Mozilla products. If you are interested in following our work, here are the team members:
- Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)
- Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd (@sheppy)
- Havi Hoffman (@freshelectrons).
- Janet Swisher (@jmswisher)
- Jean-Yves Perrier (@teoli2003)
- Jeff Griffiths (@canuckistani)
- Joe Stagner (@MisfitGeek)
- John Karahalis (@openjck)
- Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes)
- Robert Nyman (@robertnyman)
- Stormy Peter (@storming)
- Tristan Nitot (@nitot)
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, December 19th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers
Articles
- AngularJS JavaScript MVC Framework and SEO
- JS adolescence
- Compiling to JavaScript: What, Why, and How?
- JavaScript APIs you’ve never heard of (and some you have)
- Responsive Images: What We Thought We Needed
Resources
- Craft.js – small but powerful JavaScript framework
- Cool HTML Visual Test Tool
- ScrobMaster – Master your scroll events based on the elements you are affecting.
- Haraka – a Node.js Mail Server
- TraceKit – Attempts to create stack traces for unhandled JavaScript exceptions in all major browsers.
Bonus Link
If you find a link that you think should be included, please feel free to forward it to JStagner at Mozilla.com
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Responsive Patterns, automatic jQuery app tester, RESTClient for debugging – Hacks Weekly
Responsive Patterns, automatic jQuery app tester, RESTCLient for debugging RESTful web services are just some of the things Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team want to recommend to you this week!
Weekly links
If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment, contact us on Twitter or through any other means.
The picks this week are:
- Wired: A walled garden approach to the mobile web is stifling innovation
- Responsive Patterns – A collection of patterns and modules for responsive designs
- 5 APIs that will transform the Web in 2013
- Burrito Bomber – The world’s first airborne Mexican food delivery system
- 24 ways: Responsive Images: What We Thought We Needed
- walkabout.js – An automatic jQuery app tester
- RESTClient – a debugger for RESTful web services
- Google Droid-gangnam in Pure CSS
- WebRTC hits Firefox, Android and iOS
The Developer Engagement team
Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team work with writing articles, documentation – such as MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) – public speaking and generally helping and informing about open technologies and Mozilla products. If you are interested in following our work, here are the team members:
- Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)
- Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd (@sheppy)
- Havi Hoffman (@freshelectrons).
- Janet Swisher (@jmswisher)
- Jean-Yves Perrier (@teoli2003)
- Jeff Griffiths (@canuckistani)
- Joe Stagner (@MisfitGeek)
- John Karahalis (@openjck)
- Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes)
- Robert Nyman (@robertnyman)
- Stormy Peter (@storming)
- Tristan Nitot (@nitot)
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, October 24th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers
Articles
- Using HTML5′s canvas and audio elements for a guitar tuning mobile app
- Rendering templates obsolete with JavaScript
- Rich JavaScript Applications – the Seven Frameworks
- Getting HTML5 Ready – CORS
- Five things you didn’t know the web could do
Resources
- Fuel UX extends Twitter Bootstrap with additional lightweight JavaScript controls
- RSVP.js – A lightweight library that provides tools for organizing asynchronous code
- ToDoMVC – Helping you select an MV* Framework
- Mozilla adds sweetener to JavaScript
- Leak Finder: a new tool for JavaScript
Bonus Link
If you find a link that you think should be included, please feel free to forward it to JStagner at Mozilla.com
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Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, October 17th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers
Articles
- Lazy Parsing in JavaScript Engines
- Replacing text in the DOM
- Sizzle, jQuery’s CSS selector engine
- JavaScript Profiling With The Chrome Developer Tools
- A Survey of JavaScript Timers on Mobile
Resources
- Store.js – Cross Browser Local Storage – Webcast
- Pageguide.js – An interactive guide for web page elements using jQuery and CSS3.
- Mousetrap – A simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript.
- WavySandbox Install – Resource for handling web app installs
- Wakanda – Server side JavaScript for REST and JSON back ends
Bonus Link
If you find a link that you think should be included,o please feel free to forward it to JStagner at Mozilla.com
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, October 18th 2012
The web has so much great information, and naturally we want to share it with you! Here are the latest link suggestions from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team!
Weekly links
If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment, contact us on Twitter or through any other means.
The picks this week are:
- Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface: IE10 meets modern mobile HTML5
- Building a live green screen with getUserMedia() and MediaStreams
- Getting Started Developing for Firefox OS Screencasts
- David Walsh about SASS
- cHTeMeLe is a board game about HTML
- Console.log now styleable in Chrome Canary (like in Firebug)
- Using Client Side Storage Today – Talk at HTML5DevConf
- JavaScript library poll results
- Kaleidoscope in canvas
The Developer Engagement team
Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team work with writing articles, documentation – such as MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) – public speaking and generally helping and informing about open technologies and Mozilla products. If you are interested in following our work, here are the team members:
- Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)
- Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd (@sheppy)
- Havi Hoffman (@freshelectrons).
- Janet Swisher (@jmswisher)
- Jean-Yves Perrier (@teoli2003)
- Jeff Griffiths (@canuckistani)
- Joe Stagner (@MisfitGeek)
- John Karahalis (@openjck)
- Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes)
- Robert Nyman (@robertnyman)
- Stormy Peter (@storming)
- Tristan Nitot (@nitot)
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, October 11th 2012
It’s Thursday, and time to share some reading from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team!
Weekly links
If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment, contact us on Twitter or through any other means.
The picks this week are:
- Video: Passwords of the Future
- Web History, a timeline
- A whole new to think about the environment for teaching programming from Bret Victor
- Using the HTML5 Fullscreen API for Phishing Attacks
- Webcam Swiper – navigate with your hands and camera
- Someone Made That Giant xkcd Comic Into An Actual Game
- Mona Lisa with pure CSS (box-shadow)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark – all in one animated GIF!
The Developer Engagement team
Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team work with writing articles, documentation – such as MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) – public speaking and generally helping and informing about open technologies and Mozilla products. If you are interested in following our work, here are the team members:
- Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)
- Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd (@sheppy)
- Havi Hoffman (@freshelectrons).
- Janet Swisher (@jmswisher)
- Jean-Yves Perrier (@teoli2003)
- Jeff Griffiths (@canuckistani)
- Joe Stagner (@MisfitGeek)
- John Karahalis (@openjck)
- Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes)
- Robert Nyman (@robertnyman)
- Stormy Peter (@storming)
- Tristan Nitot (@nitot)
View full post on Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, October 10th 2012
Weekly Resources for HTML5 Apps Developers
Articles
- Understanding Null and typeof
- New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
- Object.create(): the New Way to Create Objects in JavaScript
- An Introduction to Content Security Policy
- Powerful New CSS- and JavaScript Techniques
Resources
- ddSlick – Dropdowns with Images
- Select2 – a jQuery based replacement for select boxes
- AngularJS JavaScript Framework – 5 great features.
- Halo.js – the simplest web editor imaginable
- eRouter – Dynamically load javascript and CSS file based on URL
Bonus Link
If you find a link that you think should be included, please feel free to forward it to JStagner at Mozilla.com
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