For the upcoming Firefox 3.1 release a lot of work has been going into improving its CSS support (specifically, in relation to the CSS 3 specification).
One areas that have received solid implementations is that of border-image. This is a new CSS 3 module that makes the exact slicing of images (and their positioning around an [...]
21 Comments · Posted: August 13th, 2008 · Tags: mozilla, css3, css, firefox
Firebug 1.2 final is set to be released sometime within the next week or two which means that our goals for Firebug 1.3 need to be pretty clear at this point. Last week the Firebug Working Group convened at Google to discuss the goals for the upcoming release. In taking a step back and looking [...]
14 Comments · Posted: August 12th, 2008 · Tags: firebug, mozilla
Decided to start something new with Dion Almaer (of Ajaxian.com fame) and Alex Russell (Dojo frame) - a podcast! We talk about the "Open Web" (the topics break down in to standards, development, JavaScript, tools - all sorts of things). We're working to get it up on iTunes (I'll be sure to update when it [...]
10 Comments · Posted: August 9th, 2008 · Tags: html5, whatwg, w3c, podcast
I was playing around with DOM DocumentFragments recently, in JavaScript, seeing what I could make with them. Roughly speaking, a DocumentFragment is a lightweight container that can hold DOM nodes. It's part of the DOM 1 specification and is supported in all modern browsers (it was added to Internet Explorer in version 6).
In reading up [...]
52 Comments · Posted: July 21st, 2008 · Tags: javascript, dom
I've got a mini-announcement. Starting this week about half of my time at Mozilla is going to be spent driving the direction of the brand-new Mozilla Firebug team. I'm, understandably, quite excited about this proposition. Like all web developers I've found Firebug to be an invaluable tool for web development.
We have a great team forming [...]
75 Comments · Posted: July 17th, 2008 · Tags: firebug, firefox, mozilla
I've had a little utility that I've been kicking around for some time now that I've found to be quite useful in my JavaScript application-building endeavors. It's a super-simple templating function that is fast, caches quickly, and is easy to use. I have a couple tricks that I use to make it real fun to [...]
95 Comments · Posted: July 16th, 2008 · Tags: javascript
A new feature being introduced in HTML 5 is the addition of custom data attributes. This is a, seemingly, bizarre addition to the specification - but actually provides a number of useful benefits.
Simply, the specification for custom data attributes states that any attribute that starts with "data-" will be treated as a storage area for [...]
45 Comments · Posted: July 13th, 2008 · Tags: html5, data, dom, javascript
This week I've been busy working on implementing a test suite for the Selectors API specification. I picked up a new microphone recently so I decided to do a quick walkthrough of the work that I've been doing and how I've been going about it. You can view the the video below:
Implementing a Selectors API [...]
16 Comments · Posted: July 10th, 2008 · Tags: css, firefox, mozilla, w3c
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