Net Applications, the most quoted of Internet research organizations, has changed the way it counts browser use in a way that for the first time puts Maxthon on Net Applications’ list of most popular browsers. A statement on Net Applications’ site says, “In the past, we reported only on our raw numbers. As of August 1st ...
We’ve just released AMO 5.0.9 with a ton of new features and bugfixes out into the wild. There’s something for everyone in this release, so take a look! Add-on Recommendations Some things go great together: peanut butter and jelly, popcorn and movies, Firebug and YSlow. Starting today, when you’re looking at an add-on’s listing, you’ll see several ...
2009-08-27: The Voice Browser Working Group has updated the Candidate Recommendation of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1. SSML is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. Although the Working Group has not formally identified any features as being at-risk, as ...
If you’re never built an add-on but really want to enter the Extend Firefox 3.5 contest, we have some resources that will help get you up to speed. First we have Robert Nyman’s excellent tutorial on building add-ons: How to develop a Firefox extension by Robert Nyman Also, two great videos to help you get started are ...
We’re getting close to Mozilla Service Week — it’s just 18 days away! We’ve had over 4,300 hours pledged and over 2,200 volunteer opportunities posted. We’re in the process of rolling out action templates for Service Week and OneWebDay for those that would like to create their own opportunities or need a little more flexibility ...
We’ve just released Camino 1.6.9, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 1.6.x. All users are urged to update. In addition, Camino 1.6.9 is available in the following languages: Catalan Chinese (S... ...
Photo by (le)doo. Last week’s meetup in New York City was a great event bringing together developers to learn about add-on development and hear about the newest features on AMO. We’ll be hosting another meetup in Miami, FL on September 15th so if you’re in the South Florida area, this will be a great opportunity to ...
Maxthon 2.5.6 is released today with 2 major features – a brand new Video Popup feature and the redesigned Float Button.The free Maxthon 2.5.6 is available for download at here After the lengthy development and refinement of the anti-freeze framework introduced in Maxthon 2.5, we are glad to introduce some new convenient features in this ...
2009-08-26: Tim Berners-Lee announced today that two people will join Sam Ruby (IBM) in co-Chairing the HTML Working Group: Paul Cotton (Microsoft) and Maciej Stachowiak (Apple). Chris Wilson has stepped down as co-Chair and indicated that he will be changing his focus to programmability in the web platform. As Berners-Lee wrote about this transition, "The ...
2009-08-26: The HTML Working Group has published Working Drafts of HTML 5 and HTML 5 differences from HTML 4. In HTML 5, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user ...