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, especially around the release of 3.5 and 3.6 then you’ve familiar with the [...]
Today, Joe Hewitt’s twitter stream is filled with things like this:
How it should go: browsers innovate differently, users pick the best one, later W3C standardizes what users chose, losing browsers conform.
Joe hasn’t been part of the web for a while, so he might not notice that there’s a lot of that going on right [...]
We’ve got an opening at Mozilla to work on the team that does both web developer and mozilla developer documentation. We’re looking for someone awesome, who groks HTML, CSS JavaScript, C, C++, loves working with people and is a great writer to boot.
Basically we’re looking for a word Ninja.
If you fit the bill, feel [...]
Google has announced the availability of a plugin that implements 3D technology and makes it available over the web. You can read about the announcement in in the Google Code Blog and in an excellent article by Ryan Paul in Ars Technica.
Ryan points out that there are significant differences between what Google has built [...]
This is essentially a re-post of what both Tristan and Paul wrote up, but I thought it was worth re-posting because it’s that good.
If you have Firefox 3.1b3 you can try the demo here.
I’ll be speaking at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference on June 23rd in San Jose, CA. There’s a presentation/panel on What Makes Browsers Performant that I’ll be part of. We’ll have reps from both Google and Microsoft there as well. Should be fun!
If you want to attend, use this code: “vel09cmb” – it will get you [...]
On June 19th and 20th, there will be a conference in New York City on open video. If you’re interested in the problems around open video and want to talk with other people, many of whom are working on solutions, this will be the place to be. Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Ryanishungry.com recently [...]
Chris Double posted about this but I thought it might be worth it to put together a simple video screencast of what this actually looked like in practice. It’s a damn neat idea and opens up all kinds of possibilities. Once again, with video as a first class citizen on the web, what [...]
At Mozilla we do a lot of releases. Every few weeks, we’ll do a minor release to fix security issues and improve the reliability of the browser. On the 3.0 branch, for example, we’re up to Firefox 3.0.7. 7 releases in 9 months is a pretty blistering pace. For a long time we [...]
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 Double beat me to the punch and has an excellent little tutorial about how [...]