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Geolocation in Firefox 3.5 and Fennec

By dougt | Published: April 30, 2009
I’m excited to introduce a new feature in Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 that I’ve been working on called geolocation. Geolocation is an opt-in tool that lets users share their location information with web sites through Firefox and will enable a new range of services on the web. Geolocation can make web sites smarter and [...]
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What is a reflow?

By dougt | Published: May 24, 2008
Reflow is the process by which the geometry of the layout engine’s formatting objects are computed.  Last week, I was searching around and stumbled on these really cool visuals of what a reflow looks like.  If you’re a visual person, you will dig these: Reflow of Mozilla.org: [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=1020647662203348823] Reflow of Google.co.jp: [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-1471976166301235697] Reflow of Wikipedia: [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-5863446593724321515] If you produced [...]
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