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Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by [deleted] »

asdasf wrote: post #23
sp332 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Development isn't stagnant. They have releases on a 6-week schedule now, that's why each update is smaller. Because of the more frequent releases, features get released as soon as they're ready instead of waiting months or years for a "major release" like they used to.

I did not suggest the size of any given update, or the schedule they are released at was evidence of stagnation. The fact that firefox is the problem browser now instead of IE is what I pointed to. It is nearly 2014. Firefox still doesn't have html 5 form elements even. Remember making internal use sites and telling people "we're not supporting IE, use firefox"? Now we're doing "we're not supporting firefox, use chro…

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Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by untog »

lillycat wrote: post #71
ghx wrote: post #61

Wasn't there supposed to be a new UI with this release? When you Google "firefox new ui", the headlines all point to 25 having that. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/05/mozilla-is-planning...

It is not yet ready. Expected for Fx 28 (but would not sign it with my blood). There is a UX Nightly with Australis (the name of the redesign) out there.

Really looking forward to it. Maybe it makes me sound superficial but that might be what finally makes me switch back from Chrome - the compactness of the Chrome UI is great. Firefox on OSX is really in need of a boost.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by megaman821 »

recuter wrote: post #50
robin_reala wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you’ve seen kangax’s charts, but he does a good job of tracking progress: http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/ Firefox 26 will introduce Array.of, Math.fround, Generators and Structs.

That seems to be coming along nicely but it looks like almost nothing made it into IE11 - so doesn't that mean we missed the boat for a few more years? I want to use this stuff so badly already. Gah.

Since TypeScript is somewhat tracking ES6 proposals it looks like Microsoft will be quick to include it once the spec is finalized.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by graue »

sp332 wrote: post #2

Hey, web audio is now in Firefox! That means all the web apps that did user-agent detection instead of feature detection will have to be updated.

Ugh, why do people do that to begin with? :( I've had Web Audio for a while since I'm on the Aurora channel, and there's so many demos that refuse to work for no reason.

I try to do my part by submitting pull requests that fix it, when possible, but most of those pull requests have been sitting ignored for months.

Clearly more people need to be educated that user-agent sniffing = bad.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by beagle3 »

Can someone shed some light on the rationale and usefulness of the inline "iframe" and "srcdoc" attributes? I read the description, I understand how they work, but I'm not sure what they are good for.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by mortyseinfeld »

agentultra wrote: post #16

I developed a patch that added the VAO WebGL extensions earlier this year and it's finally out there! So. Cool. And everyone at mozilla is really helpful if you're thinking about contributing for the first time.

Sorry to be dense, I know what WebGL is, but what's VAO?

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by shrikant »

asdasf wrote: post #56
Yoric wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what you mean. As far as I can remember, Firefox has had HTML 5 forms since Firefox 4 ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Form... ). What exactly are you talking about?

I am talking about the rest of them. In particular, the most useful ones: date, time, datetime(-local), hell even number is useful and forever missing in firefox.

The only form elements missing from Firefox (according to http://caniuse.com/forms) are the date/time, number and colour input types. IE only partially supports the number input type, and doesn't support the rest.

It's hard to believe you have to tell users to use IE over Firefox because of that difference.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by shmerl »

k2enemy wrote: post #5

Still no h.264 on Mac :(

Linux has it though, through GStreamer (but you need to set media.gstreamer.enabled to true in about:config).

Is there any way to set a preference for free formats by the way? I.e. if the page specified several sources for the audio or video tags, but puts MP4 first let's say, is there way to override that and say "always prefer WebM if present" or something like that?

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