Monthly Archives: February 2009

fallback options for the video tag

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Some of you might have noticed that I was able to use a fallback in my previous posts that include a native video tag. I was going to do a post on how that works. It’s pretty simple. But Chris … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, howto, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | Leave a comment

video tag and planet software

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

A lot of people read blogs on open source projects via their respective planets.  For example, I’m on both planet.mozilla.org and planet.gnome.org.  You can either read content directly using your browser or you can read the rss feed for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Web, RSS, Video, Web Standards | 6 Comments

the mozilla community marketing guide

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Jane has put up a post announcing that the Mozilla Community Marketing Guide is up and running.  This is a guide that’s useful for people who want to participate in Mozilla’s community marketing to help spread the love of Firefox … Continue reading →

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march 6: open web / mozcamp event in the netherlands

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

On March 6th Tristan Nitot and Paul Rouget will be helping to host a MozCamp event in Utrecht in the Netherlands.  Taken directly from his blog post: What is it about? It’s an event for people passionate about the open … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Europe, Evangelism, Events, Mozilla, Open Web | 2 Comments

screencast #2 of open web video in firefox 3.1

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

In my last post I put up a pretty long video that contained a couple of really neat demos. Yesterday Paul made another demo, one that’s short and sweet and is self-explanatory. Pretty neat what you can do in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Beta, Evangelism, Firefox, Mozilla, OGG, Video | 8 Comments

screencast of open web video in firefox 3.1

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

I’ve made a screencast to describe some of the new video capabilities and how they can interact with the rest of the open web technologies we’re building into Firefox 3.1. Although I’ve embedded it below with a video tag (with … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Video, Web Standards | 18 Comments

the invention of printing…

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

From this fun David Carson TED talk on design. The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostered ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property.  — Unknown Another great example of how technology … Continue reading →

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my presentation at SCALE 2009

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Update on February 24th, 2009: Due to popular demand I’ve made a screencast of the two demos that I used in this presentation. I’ve put up slides from my talk at SCALE 2009.  Lots of people were interested in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Evangelism, FOSDEM, Mozilla, Speaking, Web Standards | 21 Comments

an end of life date for IE6

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

One huge step forward for the web as a whole would be to end support for IE6.  It’s filled with bad quirks and is the primary source of Microsoft’s drag on the web.  At Mozilla we generally encourage people to … Continue reading →

Posted in IE, Web Standards | 34 Comments

five writing resources

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

I’m going to list five little writing resources that I’ve found to be useful over the last few months. Many of you have probably seen many of them, but I thought it would be useful to put them all in … Continue reading →

Posted in Long Attention Span, Writing | 4 Comments