This blog post will cover what happens after you submit your packaged app to the Firefox Marketplace and how users get your app onto their devices. What is a packaged app? A packaged app is an Open Web App that … Continue reading
Offline technology is mature enough to use, but do most web developers know how? The phrase “web app” has traditionally meant something like Basecamp — an app accessed at a URL. But many traditional web apps are online, slower that … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I headed down to Porto Alegre to help out with a Mozilla hack day after BrazilJS. I was around at the BrazilJS event as well, but I only fielded the odd question as most attendees were … Continue reading
In 2011, it happened: people in the US started spending more time on mobile apps than on the web. The web is in danger. Apps are for real. As web developers we need to stand up, take notice, and help … Continue reading
How do we start building our experimental rapid prototyping tool? We could begin developing it tomorrow, diving straight into the code and working out the kinks as we go. Yet although engineering does constitute hacking and building a product, there … Continue reading
At Mozilla, we believe the web is the platform. It’s the one place where we can share apps across many devices using ubiquitous, open technologies: HTML5 and JavaScript. Today, where we have many devices running proprietary platforms at our fingertips, … Continue reading
