Phones for Apps for Firefox OS - Mozilla is giving away phones to entice app developers.
Does MultiJson introduce slowness? - Looks like we may see some rapid movement towards native Json in Ruby now.
RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins - Lots of new goodies here.
fartscroll.js - Open source from The Onion. Be afraid.
How to Setup a Production Server for Rails 4 - A walkthrough using a server …
…couldn't open locally, and URLs that didn't work in Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari.
URL sharing is not an issue if Accept negotiation is configured correctly - see instructions above. Next, once a file is saved locally, you need a local WebP codec or viewer. The good news is, Chrome just landed a patch to register itself as a default WebP handler across all platforms - if you have Chrome, you can view local WebP files, and there is a growing list …
Ruby 2.0 Works Hard So You Can Be Lazy - A look at the internals of lazy evaluation.
rubocop - A ruby code style checker.
Developer Tools Update - Firefox 22 - Some nifty new stuff lurking in this release.
…such a large performance chasm appearing between Asm.js and the current engines in Firefox and Chrome. A 4-10x performance difference is substantial (this is in the realm of comparing these browsers to the performance of IE 6). Interestingly even with this performance difference many of these Asm.js demos are still usable on Chrome and Firefox, which is a good indicator for the current state of JavaScript engines. That being said their performance is simply not as good as the performance …
…support for WebP, and there is an open discussion with the Firefox team. There are also third party plugins for Safari and Chrome Frame provides support for IE - however, you can't rely on these plugins being present. Instead, for time being you have to fall back to User-Agent detection on the server, or use a JavaScript check - in fact, there is even a JS polyfill ! Finally, there is work in progress to fix Accept negotiation …
…switching to WebKit is a slippery slope and/or Opera is a small player, Firefox or IE switching to WebKit would be a bigger problem
I think one this is clear already: WebKit has completely and unequivocally won mobile at this point. They are nearly the only rendering engine used on the vast majority of mobile browsers, including the soon-to-switch Opera Mini/ Mobile browsers too. There is no reason to worry about a slippery slope, the slope has already been slid down. In order …
…51% of people who access email through the web browser use Internet Explorer. Firefox and Chrome came in second and third, respectively, at 21% and 14%.
Chrome has quadrupled in popularity from March 2011 to September 2012. The biggest loser may be a surprise to you: Firefox dropped 20.30% while IE dropped 15.01%.
It's not just email, it's general web browsing too. Litmus also found that Chrome and Safari have seen a 97% and 53% increase, respectively, …
Firefox Marketplace Developer Hub
Here's the schedule: Time What's Happening 9:30 a.m. Registration, breakfast and set-up 10:30 a.m. Event start, with introduction by emcee 10:40 a.m. Creating Apps for Firefox OS (2 hour session) 12:40 p.m. Hacking and lunch! You've got 4 and a half hours to eat and work on your Firefox OS project. …
…smartphones cheaper. ... "But HTML5 will make a comeback because of the release of Firefox and Tizen." [says Tomer Kagan, chief executive officer of Quixey, a search engine for mobile apps] These are open-sourced, mobile operating systems that Mozilla and Samsung, respectively, are expected to launch in 2013. That could lead to cheaper smartphones, since HTML5 apps can run on these systems with no need for a browser, and they are cheaper for developers to build. "The …
Intro
In part 4 we built a complete working version of the Savings Goal Simulator as a rich web app where each view model, view and view mediator is nicely modularized. How could we leverage our browser-side markup and logic to create a mobile app , portable across multiple platforms such as IOS, Android, Windows Mobile? Well, the goal of this post is to present a potential approach. (Of course you can take a peek at the "So What?" section)