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posted by n1 on Monday November 10 2014, @07:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the sophisticated-web-development dept.

Mozilla announced that they are excited to unveil Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers that integrates two powerful new features, Valence and WebIDE that improve workflow and help you debug other browsers and apps directly from within Firefox Developer Edition. Valence (previously called Firefox Tools Adapter) lets you develop and debug your app across multiple browsers and devices by connecting the Firefox dev tools to other major browser engines. WebIDE allows you to develop, deploy and debug Web apps directly in your browser, or on a Firefox OS device. "It lets you create a new Firefox OS app (which is just a web app) from a template, or open up the code of an existing app. From there you can edit the app’s files. It’s one click to run the app in a simulator and one more to debug it with the developer tools."

Firefox Developer Edition also includes all the tools experienced Web developers are familiar with including: Responsive Design Mod, Page Inspector, Web Console, JavaScript Debugger, Network Monitor, Style Editor, and Web Audio Editor. At launch, Mozilla is starting off with Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS. and the eventual goal is to support more browsers, depending on what developers tell Mozilla they want, but the primary focus is on the mobile Web. "One of the biggest pain points for developers is having to use numerous siloed development environments in order to create engaging content or for targeting different app stores. For these reasons, developers often end up having to bounce between different platforms and browsers, which decreases productivity and causes frustration," says the press release. "If you’re a new Web developer, the streamlined workflow and the fact that everything is already set up and ready to go makes it easier to get started building sophisticated applications."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by novak on Monday November 10 2014, @09:07PM

    by novak (4683) on Monday November 10 2014, @09:07PM (#114626) Homepage

    Yeah, my first thought was that moving their focus from the UI to things that more competent users might want is a good thing; Firefox has gone steadily downhill in their mad race to become chrome 2.0. But I think it's pretty funny that they have a developer edition which is basically just changing defaults and installing a couple things developers might want, but they don't have something similar for the standard users who hate the new UI. Who's more likely to have trouble changing a few settings? A developer, or some relatively non-computer literate user who wants to know what just barfed on their browser?

    So to summarize: Mozilla continues to focus on cosmetic changes for people who don't need them instead of addressing the performance issues in their browser.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday November 10 2014, @10:26PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday November 10 2014, @10:26PM (#114651)

    in their mad race to become chrome 2.0

    There's a joke in there somewhere, considering that Chrome is already on version 38.0...

    (yeah, I know what you were getting at)

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