Mozilla
David Clarke
Originally posted on JAWS:
One of the less covered parts of this week’s Firefox release is high attention that was placed on the performance of the redesign of the tab shape. The new Firefox introduces a new tab shape that is consistent with Firefox for Android, FirefoxOS, Thunderbird, as well as the web properties of…
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David Clarke
With the sole purpose of making the web a better place and enabling our community to make a difference, we are putting together a new site that is capable of harnessing the tremendous power of the Mozilla community. –Me The portal is to be named “One and Done”, it is to be a place you […]
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David Clarke
When porting a chrome packaged app to a firefox packaged app you will need to do an inventory as to which chrome specific api’s you are using and create a level of abstraction around them, as the naming / capabilities of the apis vary across the platforms. I will try to break this article into […]
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David Clarke
I saw a question on a thread this week, and decided to spend a few hours to write up the process, as well as provide an example. This bug will cover the general conversion process, but it doesn’t cover all the idiosyncrasies / differences between the two platforms. The example I’m going to use for […]
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David Clarke
On the way back from the Mozilla Summit 2013, I spent the time to read Malcolm Gladwells new book. David and Goliath, underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants, and I was immediately struck by the similarity between Mozilla and the story of the underdog. The history of the browser has been one of […]
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David Clarke
So I thought I’d spend a few moments writing about why I am not too interested in a social phone, and basically just bitch and whine about why I am not too happy about having all my phone interactions to be viewed through the lens of facebook. There are probably 5-10 people I call on a […]
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David Clarke
Gathering profiling Data on Firefox OS can be done in several different ways. #1) Simpler is better, sometimes a stop watch is a great medium with which to gather timing data for an application you don’t understand. 2) In Application Profiling A great way to accomplish this is to use timestamps in javascript to determine […]
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David Clarke
I have my B2G device in hand….. how do I start gathering memory statistics for the apps I use. Firstly git clone the b2g repo > git clone https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G cd B2G /tools python get_about_memory.py –help There are several options you might want to consider with the tool, for now you can just run without any options. […]
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David Clarke
Performance testing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_performance_testing) for B2G is being done by many dogfooders / early users as we speak. The beginnings of this effort are to begin a framework for gathering this data, as well as empower both power users and employees to really start to make sense of all this complex data !. Toolset: Mind, stop watch, […]
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David Clarke
As we progress through the webapps project there is an astounding see of change coming to HTML5 Apps near you. If you are starting a new project, I would recommend that you think about some of the ideas I am laying out below. Graphic Design: Apps will have different characteristics than webapps. You generally will […]
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