Monthly Archives: August 2012

Mobile Web Compatibility Aug 31, 2012 – Firefox OS UA, testing article, smoke tests

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Lawrence Mandel

Here’s what’s new in mobile Web compatibility this week. Firefox OS UA reverted The Firefox OS user-agent (UA) has been reverted to include the “Android” token. It is not yet clear whether this is a temporary or permanent change. The … Continue reading →

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Mobile Web Compatibility Aug. 24, 2012 – H.264, site fixes, Spade

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Lawrence Mandel

Due to various reasons (vacation, infant needing a visit to the hospital), I skipped posting last week’s mobile Web compatibility summary. Here, then, is what’s new in mobile Web compatibility the past two weeks. H.264/AAC/MP3 decoding support H.264/AAC/MP3 audio and … Continue reading →

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My Submission for the Firefox OS Wallpaper Contest

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Lawrence Mandel

The Firefox OS wallpaper contest recently closed. From the photoset on Flickr, I see that there were 2,557 submissions. Here’s my submission of Firefox Leaves.

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Preliminary results of aliasing Webkit CSS properties in Gecko analysis

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Lawrence Mandel

The Mozilla Layout, QA, and Market Insight teams recently analyzed the impact of aliasing Webkit CSS properties in Gecko with the goal of answering the question, Does aliasing a subset of Webkit CSS properties in Gecko improve mobile Web compatibility? … Continue reading →

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Mobile Web Compatibility Aug 10, 2012 – Google, YouTube, User Agents

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Lawrence Mandel

Here’s what’s new in mobile Web compatibility this week. Site testing and outreach Google updated a number of their mobile sites this week to recognize Firefox for Android. First off, thanks to Google for making the effort to improve the … Continue reading →

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Mobile Web Compatibility Aug 3, 2012 – Bing, IMDB, JQuery Mobile, Firefox OS

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Lawrence Mandel

Here’s what’s new in mobile Web compatibility this week. Site testing and outreach The Bing team over at Microsoft recently updated the search engine’s mobile site to recognize Firefox for Android. The Bing experience on Firefox is now pretty great. … Continue reading →

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