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    Windows 8 Pin METAs

    Windows 8 allows for adding websites as apps (or maybe "bookmarks" is a better term) to the home screen, much in the vein that iOS allows users to do the same.  Like iOS devices, Windows 8 allows  users to accomplish this same task using custom...

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    Multiple Facebook Accounts on iOS

    When little Jackson London Walsh was born, I pondered whether we should give him his own Facebook account or simply have my wife and I post to our personal accounts.  We decided to get Jack his own account because: we want to be able to have photos...

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    Turn Your Web Application into a Firefox OS App in 5 Minutes

    One of the promises that comes with HTML5 mobile apps, especially those to be featured on Firefox OS, is that your existing web applications, if created properly (feature detection, responsive design, etc.), can be turned into a working mobile application in relatively little time.  And that's...

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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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    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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    apple-itunes-app Meta Tag

    Whenever you visit the website of a vendor that provides an iOS app, you're either hit by an alert or ugly popup saying "Download our iPhone App!"  It's great that they want to pitch their iOS app but the lack of structure and uniformity in the...