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Save the Date: MDN Hack Day Comes to NYC on March 24

A bunch of us Mozilla Developer Network folks — web developers, technical writers, developer evangelists and cat herders like me — will be hosting MDN’s first Hack Day in the great city of New York. Like many teams who work together at Mozilla,...

Wiki Wednesday: February 22, 2012

Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into...

A simple image gallery using only CSS and the :target selector

Back in the old days of web development and when CSS2 got support I always cringed at “CSS only” demos as a lot of them were hacky to say the least. With CSS growing up and having real interaction features it seems to me though that it is time to...

Saving images and files in localStorage

As you might know, localStorage is quite powerful when it comes to quickly storing information in the user’s web browser, and it has also been around in all web browsers a long time. But how do we store files in it? Using JSON for powerful control Let’s...

Dev Derby February – working with touch events

It’s February and time for our next Dev Derby! Dev Derby is a part of Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), and each of them are focused on a certain technology where people can submit their demos. This month, we want to see what you can do with touch events!...

State of the Docs, February 16, 2012

The ramped-up level of documentation contributions that started in January is surviving longer than most New Year’s resolutions. Keep it up! And as ever, thanks to everyone who contributed, whether you’re mentioned here or not! Help wanted Michael...

Mozilla Hacks Weekly, February 16th 2012

It’s Thursday, meaning that all of us in Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team want to share our reading tips! And man, have we got a lot of good links for you this week! At the end of this blog post, you also have all the Developer Engagement team...

Old tricks for new browsers – a talk at jQuery UK 2012

Last Friday around 300 developers went to Oxford, England to attend jQuery UK and learn about all that is hot and new about their favourite JavaScript library. Imagine their surprise when I went on stage to tell them that a lot of what jQuery is used for these...

Mozilla HTML5 Games Work Week: 12–17th Feb

Next week is the first Mozilla HTML5 games work week. In this post I’ll talk briefly about what this is and why we think it’s important. Over the past few months and years it has become clear that HTML5 and JavaScript are proving more than enough...

Mozilla Hacks Weekly, February 10th 2011

Time for Mozilla hacks Weekly again, with some nice reading suggestions from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team. At the end of this blog post, you also have all the Developer Engagement team members and what they work on. If you are interested in discussing...