Articles for October 2011
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CSS 3D transformations in Firefox Nightly
When the first 3D transformations in CSS got support on Webkit browsers people got incredibly excited about them. Now that they have matured we also support 3D CSS in Firefox. To see it for yourself, check out one of the latest nightly builds. You can see them in action in this demo of a rotating […]
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Debugging and editing webpages in 3D
Tilt is a Firefox addon that lets you visualize any web page in 3D. A new update is available, coming with more developer-oriented features. Try the addon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7eG_PONHRw Since the first alpha version of Tilt was announced (a Firefox extension focused on creating a 3D visualization of a webpage), a lot of work has been […]
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Ben Adida on BrowserID and identity
This is the second installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. Today Ben Adida is in the hot seat to discuss BrowserID, Mozilla’s identity initiative. Tristan Nitot – Hi Ben, can you briefly introduce yourself? Ben Adida – I’ve been hacking since high school […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, October 13th 2011
Thursday again, and it’s time for our reading tips!
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WDC2011: Tomorrow's Web (and Future Technologies)
Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Web Developer Conference in Bristol. This was the fifth conference in the event’s history and was attended by well over 200 Web designers and developers from across the UK. In my talk I covered some Web technologies that are on the horizon and […]
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HTML5 live: Rocking the boat – and causing a ripple
Today was the HTML5 live conference in London, England. In this one day conference around 150 attendees learned the why of HTML5, and how to implement it in the current work environment. As Mozilla’s representative I was asked to give a talk on how we are faring as a movement when it comes to HTML5. […]
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JSConf EU fun and doc sprint results
At the just-finished JSConf.eu (European JavaScript Conference), Mozilla sponsored the Hacker Lounge, and held a doc sprint during the conference. The conference kicked off with Bella Morningstar, president of the Brendan Eich Fan Club (a.k.a. Mandy Lauderdale), serenading Brendan: JSConf.eu opening song – JavaScript Will Listen from Alexander Lang on Vimeo. Later, at Brendan’s request, […]
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Beam me up, Scotty – bringing HTML5 to the enterprise
The last few days I was busy talking to in-house developers at two large enterprise companies, Sabre in Poland and SAP in Germany. Both these companies approached us asking for a talk about HTML5 as the topic gets a lot of interest in the upper echelons and there is a lot of confusion about it. […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, October 27th 2011
We come across a lot of interesting links in Developer Engagement. Here is a round-up of our favourite ones from the past week.
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Located: Winners of the September Dev Derby on Geolocation.
With more people going mobile and taking the Web with them, we thought Geolocation was a great topic for the September Dev Derby. Web developers explored a number of ways to bring your physical location into the Web experience and we had 16 demos submitted for the Dev Derby. Voting was tough this month, but […]
