The project I founded, Apache CouchDB, recently hit 1.0 . I'm very proud :)
It's been a long time, but we finally produced a release that's complete, performs well and is rock solid.
Already CouchDB is on over 10 million machines. It's used by big respected websites (like the BBC) and groundbreaking organizations ( Mozilla and Canonical). We run on most * nix, OS X, Windows, and even Android phones. Have dozens of frameworks and client libraries available. …
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John Resig ( JavaScript tool developer for Mozilla and creator of jQuery)
This talk will be a comprehensive look at what you need to know to properly test your web applications on mobile devices, based upon the work that's been done by the jQuery team. We'll look at the different mobile phones that exist, what browsers they run, and what you can do to support them. Additionally we'll examine some of the testing tools that can be used to make the whole process …
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Mozilla has written one called Raindrop that's basically a mail-style app. We've written a chat app and a calendar app.
You run these in your browser, and they're just like regular web apps. The really cool thing is that once you install CouchDB locally, you can replicate these down and still run them even if you're disconnected from the network. You have the exact same experience.
We want to get the browser plugins, so you can integrate them straight in the browser. …
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…JavaScript Database" ( Webkit), " Storage" ( Mozilla), Web SQL storage or "webdb" (various) - is far more robust. This is offline storage using real SQL - Webkit and Mozilla both use an embedded SQLite engine, and expose it through various client-side scripting interfaces.
Here's an example taken from Apple's developer documentation for Safari: <noscript> try { if (!window.openDatabase) { alert('not …
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[Untitled] - Asa Raskin ( Mozilla)
[Untitled] - Adrian Belina ( Jam3Media)
Developer Track
Data Chemistry - Chris Thorpe ( The Guardian )
[Untitled] - Diana Clarke ( FreshBooks)
Scaling Your Tech Teams - Joe Stump ( SimpleGeo)
Lean Product Development: Learning is the Killer Feature - Dan Martell ( FlowTown)
Management Track
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Building and Scaling Inside Sales …
…were calling it Canvas 3d ( here 's a working add-on by Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukićević).
Google Gears shipped what would become the Application Cache , Web Storage , and Web Workers , proving out the concepts. It also shipped geolocation , which is now part of the HTML5 spec.
@ font-face originally shipped in Internet Explorer 5.5 . Apple has added new mobile events ( touchstart , touchmove , touchend …
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…Google Chrome. (I didn't test other browsers or mobile WebKits.) Mozilla has some nice reference documentation with this very important detail:
As the user resizes the window, Firefox will switch style sheets as appropriate based on media queries using the width and height media features.
You can see this in effect on my "iPhone vs. Droid ads" page which was originally designed as a gorgeous, whitespace-rich two-column layout comparing two companies' …
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All of us want to see what Mozilla has in store for Firefox 4 and Firefox 5. Alex discussed this in detail. The slides and the podcast walk you through all the changes in discussion for the future versions. Here are a few teasers for you:
Thinking of putting tabs on top finally.
Courtesy of Mozilla
Courtesy of Mozilla
Trying to change the way we think about bookmarks. "Instead of hierarchical trees and folders we'd like to give folks an ability to use all of FF interface …
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…IE but broken in Mozilla. We would file a bug, and our developer would fix it in Mozilla, but forget to test it in IE. So the next week, the bug was still there, but now it would be broken in IE, instead.
That was frustrating, and I decided that we needed to put a stop to it. We decided to come up with a way to write one test and run it across all of the browsers we cared about. That was the genesis of the Selenium tool.
Scott: How did the tool progress from that point to become …
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Photo courtesy of Mozilla
Every day Firefox is used by 120 million people as their window into the Web. The browser has a 25% market share, is the second most popular browser worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and is the most used web browser independent of any one operating system.
What makes Firefox so remarkable is not its success but the way a distributed global community of contributors have organized to effectively compete with corporations …
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