Category Archives: Mozilla

Mozilla-related items.

bringing the first 3D HTML5 video to the web with Firefox, NVIDIA and Youtube

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Christopher Blizzard

Starting with Firefox 4, WebM videos encoded with 3D data will be displayed in high-quality stereoscopic 3D using NVIDIA 3D Vision hardware. 3D hardware has moved from movie theaters and into people’s homes through TVs, laptop and desktop machines. 3D … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, NVIDIA, Open Web, Video, Youtube | 48 Comments

new role at mozilla – director of web platform

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

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 →

Posted in Mozilla | 17 Comments

innovation in browsers

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, Web Standards | 2 Comments

want to work at mozilla? have awesome tech writing and community development skills? we have the job for you

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

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my thoughts on google’s 3d experiment

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D, Design, Firefox, Google, Mozilla, Open Web, OpenGL, Performance, Standards | 25 Comments

another fantastic open video demo

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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.

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 4 Comments

speaking at the o’reilly velocity conference – june 23rd

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Mozilla, Performance, Speaking | 1 Comment

the open video conference – june 19-20 in NYC

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Events, Freedom, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 3 Comments

open web video screencast #3 – creating your own player

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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. … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 17 Comments

watching the firefox 3.1 beta 3 release on social media networks

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Firefox, identi.ca, Mozilla, Twitter | 3 Comments