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• How to make a browser app for Firefox OS

  Firefox OS is an operating system built on top of the Firefox web browser engine, which is called Gecko. A browser app on Firefox OS provides a user interface written with HTML5 technology and manages web page browsing using the Browser API. It also manages tabbing, browsing history, bookmarks, and ...

  Posted March 20, 2015 by yliao

• Using the Firefox DevTools to Debug fetch() on GitHub

  Firefox Nightly recently added preliminary support for Fetch, a modern, Promise-based replacement for XMLHttpRequest (XHR). Our initial work supported most of the Fetch Specification, but not quite all of it. Specifically, when Fetch first appeared in Nightly, we hadn’t yet implemented serializing and de-serializing of FormData objects. GitHub was already ...

  Posted March 19, 2015 by Dan Callahan

• An analytics primer for developers

  There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics – Mark Twain Deciding what to track (all the things) When you are adding analytics to a system you should try to log everything. At some point in the future if you need to pull information out of a ...

  Posted March 17, 2015 by Mark Wheeler

• Save the Web – Be a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow

  This is a critical time in the evolution of the Web. Its core ethos of being free and open is at risk with too little interoperability and threats to privacy, security, and expression from governments throughout the world. To protect the Web, we need more people with technical expertise to ...

  Posted March 11, 2015 by Hannah Kane

• Visually Representing Angular Applications

  This article concerns diagrammatically representing Angular applications. It is a first step, not a fully figured out dissertation about how to visual specify or document Angular apps. And maybe the result of this is that I, with some embarrassment, find out that someone else already has a complete solution. My ...

  Posted March 11, 2015 by David Aden