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Learning Firefox OS Application Development

By : Tanay Pant
Book Image

Learning Firefox OS Application Development

By: Tanay Pant

Overview of this book

With broad compatibility, the latest in web technologies, and powerful development tools, Firefox is a great choice for both web developers and end users. Firefox OS’s promotion of HTML5 as a first class citizen opens up the walled gardens of mobile application development for web developers. It is because of this initiative that no special SDKs are required to develop for Firefox OS. This book will help you excel in the art of developing applications for Firefox OS. It sequentially covers knowledge building, skills acquisition, and practical applications. Starting with an introduction to Firefox OS, usage of WebIDE, and then the application structure, this book introduces applications of increasing complexity with each chapter. An application that measures your tapping speed, a geolocation tagging application, and a photo editing and sharing application are the three applications that will be built from scratch. You will learn about topics such as the difference between various types of Firefox OS applications, application manifest files, offline apps, and designing principles for applications. You will also learn to test and submit the applications to the marketplace and finally maintain the repository of the Firefox OS application. By the end, you will be able to develop beautifully designed, fully-fledged, and rigorously tested Firefox OS applications and also share them at the Firefox OS Marketplace.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Firefox OS Application Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the Firefox developer tools for debugging


The Firefox developer tools are a handy, in-browser set of various tools that are very helpful in bringing the HTML, CSS, and JS of any page at your fingertips. While we debug our code, we need to obtain the details of a stylesheet, or check whether a JS file is loaded or not.

We can easily do this with the help of the Firefox developer tools. The toolkit contains numerous tools for a variety of purposes to help a developer with application development. Let's now discuss how to use some of these handy tools while we debug applications.

Console

Console is an in-browser logging zone where HTML, CSS, JS, and other errors are displayed. Not only the errors, but warnings and unexpected results. We have already discussed how you can open console for your Firefox OS application in Chapter 2, Running Firefox OS Simulator with WebIDE.

You must have already used console to log your result of JS code using the console.log(message) function, while some old...