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In this post, I’ll be talking about how to create a basic note-taking app that syncs local and remote content if you are online and defaults to saving locally if offline. Using Redis on the server-side When adding records in Redis, we aren’t working...
A push to device feature was added in the 3.0 release of the Firefox OS Simulator. This feature allows web apps to be pushed to a connected device by clicking one button in the Simulator Dashboard. Availability of the Developer Preview Phone from Geeksphone...
In the last few years we’ve witnessed an evolution in what ‘app’ means to both developers and consumers. The word app evokes the idea of a rich, task-oriented user experience with highly optimized user interface that responds to its environment...
Update: Today, Monday, May 13 at 11:00am PDT, we closed the submission form for the Phones for Apps program. Thanks so much to all of you for your interest and enthusiasm. Your response has been overwhelming! We’ve received thousands of applications,...
Most of you remember the Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! blog post right here in Mozilla Hacks demonstrating WebRTC video chat between Firefox and Chrome. It raised a lot of attention. Since then we here at Fresh Tilled Soil have seen a tremendous...
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, in...
About 6 weeks ago, we wrote about the preview of Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 and now we’re happy to release it! New features In our preview coverage, we listed the new features for this version: Push to Device Rotation simulation Basic geolocation API simulation...
This past March, some of the most creative web developers out there showed us what they could do for the mobile Web in the March Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our our three expert judges\u2013Craig Cook, Franck Lecollinet, and Guillaume...
This is episode 11, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part about localization, hopefully making you feel all ready to handle that now! Using Our Strings So first we added the i18n-abide...
The Promise of Web Payments The first and second articles in this series outlined how PaySwarm is designed to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. The articles went on to explain how making the tools that have been...