Author Archives: dougt

Labyrinth Game in the browser

By dougt | Published: December 21, 2009
A few months ago, I mentioned the game Labyrinth and how I wanted this to work in the browser. Syd Lawrence took up the cause and put together a cool implementation. Play it here. You must be running Firefox 3.6 RC or better. This uses the new orientation events added to Firefox 3.6. Syd also [...]
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ncat ascii art

By dougt | Published: December 21, 2009
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Fast Flash in Fennec

By dougt | Published: November 29, 2009
For the last few days, we have been making Flash fast in Fennec. Our situation in Fennec is that we have a hidden browser element that contains the flash object/embed element. When a paint needs to happen, we draw whatever the plugin wants to draw into a canvas or sent of canvas elements. These canvas [...]
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Geolocation support in add-ons

By dougt | Published: November 12, 2009
Today, I checked-in a set of changes that will allow mozilla addons the ability to acquire the location information. It is pretty simple to do: geolocation = Cc["@mozilla.org/geolocation;1"] .getService(Ci.nsIDOMGeoGeolocation); geolocation.watchPosition(successCallback); In this trivial example, the object |geolocation| is fully compatible with the W3C’s geolocation object that exists under the navigator object in web content. |successCallback| [...]
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