Web Development
AMO Changes for 2010
Yesterday Wil Clouser wrote up a blog post detailing infrastructure changes for addons.mozilla.org in 2010. Notable changes are: Migrating from CakePHP to Django Moving from SVN to Git Continuous integration Faster deployment Processing data offline Improved documentation Take a look, it’s a good overview of the technical challenges of managing a large and complex website at an enormous scale. »
Plugin Checker Launched
Today we launched a Plugin Checker to help people find and update their plugins. Why is this important to you? Crashes are the number one concern for Firefox users, and we are listening. At least 30% of all Firefox crashes are caused by third-party plugins. Many major security vulnerabilities exploit out of date plugins. Why is this important to... »
New PluginCheck Page Needs Your Help
Following up on the Flash Detection on the What’s New page, we are developing an upgrade to the Plugin Finder Service (PFS2). We could use your help! Please hit our testing server’s Plugin Check. We will be able to capture information about plugins and help fill-out the PFS2 database. See an issue? Look through current... »
Attention all web testing gurus
We’re looking for someone with mounds of web testing experience and a love for the open web. If that applies to you, find out more and apply!. »
Download Stats move to mozilla.com
During the Firefox 3.5 launch, Daniel Einspanjer and Dave Dash put together a neat little stats counter at downloadstats.mozilla.com. We decided to do a sprint to try integrating this with mozilla.com to give it a proper home. Historically, we’ve had different ways to track new releases and their downloads: 2004-2007 (Firefox 1.0, 1.5, 2.0) –... »
HTML5 Audio Soundboard
pre { font-size:110%; } A few months ago, one of my famous web developer co-workers had an oh-so-special bug filed against him requesting sound bites of some of his more famous sayings. He closed this bug with great success and all was well. Fast forward to today and not all is well. While we... »
Fun with Tooltips
A long time ago, at a far away company, I was given a project that required a not-so-usual use of tooltips. I had to implement multi-line tooltips like so: Luckily it only had to work in IE, and line breaks for tooltips in IE are just normal linebreaks in HTML, so nothing too complicated. But... »
Contribute to Mozilla Service Week
In an effort to bootstrap Mozilla Service Week, we’ve put out our first call for volunteering on Idealist.org. Want to exercise your CSS skills? We need help fixing IE 6 layout issues. We mark IE6 bugs as critical when they block a user’s ability to volunteer, but display bugs are less of a priority. It’s... »
Cesium 0.1 Released!
Update: We’ve released Cesium 0.1.1, which can be downloaded here: http://people.mozilla.org/~rdoherty/cesium/cesium-0.1.1.zip YSlow is an invaluable resource for developers who want to ensure that their web applications are as responsive as possible to users. For those who don’t already know, YSlow is an extension for Firebug, another incredibly useful tool for web developers, which is... »
Improving Accessibility Through ARIA
Accessibility is a pretty hairy issue in web development. When attempting to determine if your site is accessible, there are so many standards and recommendations to follow. 508, WCAG, WCAG 2.0, WAI Priority 1, 2 & 3. Well, now there is a new standard from the W3C called WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible... »
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