Author Archives: Christopher Blizzard

disabling websockets for firefox 4

We’ve decided to disable support for WebSockets in Firefox 4, starting with beta 8 due to a protocol-level security issue. Beta 7 included support for the -76 version of the protocol, the same version that’s included with Chrome and Safari. … Continue reading

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websockets – shipping before it’s ready?

Anne from Opera has posted about their support for WebSockets in Opera 10.70. Unfortunately, they will be shipping -76, which is a version of the protocol that will be replaced. And it’s in the official namespace, which means that if … Continue reading

Posted in Web Standards, WebSockets | 18 Comments

my favorite TED talk

A lot of people like the talks about technology, or science, or environment-changing discoveries, or well-known leaders. But this is my favorite, and it’s one that I think most people haven’t seen about wisdom, moral courage and leadership.

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24 Hours of LeMons

First, you need to understand that this is a post about racing. Racing cars. I’m a bit of a motorhead and I like things like this so if you don’t care about cars or you think they are dumb then … Continue reading

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new role at mozilla – director of web platform

For the last couple of years I’ve been responsible for our wonderful Evangelism group at Mozilla. We’ve been responsible for a combination of developer relations, standards work and outbound developer-focused communications. If you’ve followed our work on hacks and devmo, … Continue reading

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creating cultural change

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bucket head

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a map of the open web

A few months ago I sat down with Philipp Schmidt and Arun and helped to map out what the open web skill set would look like, mapped as a cloud. This was the first draft, and I thought that it … Continue reading

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a reminder from our future robot overlords

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all tomorrow’s parties

hey kids it’s a puppet show place coin in slot to make it go

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