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    Firefox OS Source Leaked!!!

    The complete, commented source code for Mozilla's new Firefox OS effort has been leaked!!  In what can only be a massive oversight on Mozilla's part, the holy trinity of Firefox OS (codenamed Boot2Gecko), Gonk (the Linux kernel), Gecko (the renderer), and

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    Firefox OS User Agent

    While we consider user agent sniffing a horrible practice on the client side, UA sniffing is done quite a bit on the server side to serve up the appropriate page version of a site, or redirect to, for example, the mobile version of the site.  This...

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    What MWC Taught Us About Firefox OS

    This week marked the beginning of Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona, Spain.  This is a giant event in the mobile world and is the kickoff event for Firefox OS.  Mozilla CEO Gary Covacs, joined by hundreds of fellow Mozillians, made the official announcement about...

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    Create a Brilliant Sprited, CSS-Powered Firefox Animation

    Mozilla recently formally announced Firefox OS and its partners at Mobile World Congress and I couldn't be more excited.  Firefox OS is going to change the lives of people in developing countries, hopefully making a name for itself in the US as well.  The...

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    Install Chrome Store Web Apps with JavaScript

    Being able to install Firefox OS web apps from any domain, not just the platform app store, is a giant step forward in mobile app marketing and freedom.  Firefox OS allows installing apps from any or all domains, and it just so happens that...

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    Firefox OS Manifest .htaccess Handler

    Want to know one of the secrets why Firefox OS is so incredibly awesome?  If you've created your website correctly, i.e. using CSS media queries (responsive design) and JavaScript feature detection, you can simply add an app.manifest file at the root of your domain and...

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    6 Things You Didn’t Know About Firefox OS

    Firefox OS is all over the tech news and for good reason:  Mozilla's finally given web developers the platform that they need to create apps the way they've been creating them for years -- with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.  Firefox OS has been rapidly improving...

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    Install Firefox OS Apps on Any Domain

    The app store models we've grown up with suck:  you have to install apps from within those stores.  With iOS you go to a site, they provide a link to install their app, and you get swapped from the browser to the App store.  What an...

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    Vibration API

    Many of the new APIs provided to us by browser vendors are more targeted toward the mobile user than the desktop user.  One of those simple APIs the Vibration API.  The Vibration API allows developers to direct the device, using JavaScript, to vibrate in...

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    Firefox OS Simulator

    If you haven't heard yet, Mozilla is working on an awesome new phone OS called Firefox OS.  From a developer's perspective, highlights include: all apps are and will be created from CSS, JavaScript, and HTML the OS is open source each app runs as its...