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• App basics for Firefox OS – a screencast series to get you started

  Over the next few days we’ll release a series of screencasts explaining how to start your first Open Web App and develop for Firefox OS. Each of the screencasts is terse enough to watch in a short break and the whole series should not take you more than an hour ...

  Posted March 13, 2014 by Chris Heilmann

• Audio Tags: Web Components + Web Audio = ♥

  Article written by Soledad Penadés, edited by Angelina Fabbro. Last week we released Brick 1.0, our carefully curated set of web components for rapid development. Using components makes it very easy to use and integrate these UI widgets with existing code and frameworks. And this week we bring you Audio ...

  Posted March 12, 2014 by Soledad Penadés

• Create Add-ons for Australis to Win a Firefox OS Phone

  Firefox 29 (“Australis”) includes significant design and customization improvements, and we’re challenging you to create add-ons that look and feel great in it. Between March 11 – April 15, 2014, create add-ons that take full advantage of the new design, which opens up new customization opportunities and streamlines the add-on ...

  Posted March 11, 2014 by Amy Tsay

• The Translation of the Firetext App

  The History Firetext is an open-source word processor. The project was started in early 2013 by @HRanDEV, @logan-r, and me (@Joshua-S). The goal of the project was to provide a user-friendly editing experience, and to fill a major gap in functionality on Firefox OS. Firetext 0.3 In the year since ...

  Posted March 11, 2014 by Joshua Smith

• Lessons learnt building ViziCities

  Just over 2 weeks ago Peter Smart and Robin Hawkes released the first version of ViziCities to the world. It’s free to use and open-sourced under an MIT license. In this post I will talk to you about the lessons learnt during the development of ViziCities. From application architecture to ...

  Posted March 5, 2014 by Robin Hawkes