Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Privacy policy guidelines and Template for web apps
Releasing an app is much more than just coding it. You are providing a service to people and they trust you with their data. With the amount of reports of apps “calling home” and storing and sending your data to third parties without your consent rising it is important to make it plain and obvious […]
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Bret Victors "Inventing on principle" – and a few things it inspired
Bret Victor‘s “Inventing on principle” talk (also available on YouTube in case you want to skip ahead) from this year’s CUSEC is one of these hours of your life where you watch something and go “wow”: Video on Vimeo. Bret talks about having a principle to follow when inventing new things. A principle that guides […]
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Launching Evangelism Reps – getting the army of awesome ready to take the stage
Today the Developer Engagement Team has launched the Evangelism Reps program – a special interest group within ReMo. Each year, we get thousands of requests to send Mozilla speakers around the world to talk about HTML5, new web technologies, Mozilla’s mission, our projects, products and more. Now, we would love for you to join the […]
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Luke Crouch on: HTML5 – code for all the platforms
Back in October, Luke Crouch, one of the web developers working on the Mozilla Developer Network went to Techfest in Tulsa, Oklahoma to tell people all about HTML5. You can see his slides with his voiceover at Usergroup.tv: Luke gave an overview on the history of HTML5 vs. XHTML and the approaches of the W3C […]
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Taking steps() with CSS animations
CSS animations are hot and a lot of experimentation is going on. A cool new feature of animations is the steps() option which allows you to cut an animation into steps instead of a transition from one state to another in one go. While this seems counterproductive on first glance there is a lot you […]
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Rendering 3D with CSS and JavaScript with dom3d (guest post)
Today we have a guest post by James Long (@jlongster). James is the tech lead for mozilla.com on the Web Development team. James is passionate about interactive graphics on the open web. Today he explains how you can create 3D objects using CSS without having 3D transforms support. Take it away, James. Recently I was […]
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HTML5 Battles still to be won – a talk at Open Web Camp III
Last Saturday was the Open Web Camp at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Around 300 developers, designers and project managers signed up to hear up-to-date information about web technologies, accessibility and design. The event was free and, although it started very early for Silicon Valley standards, very well attended. Mozilla’s contribution (other than being a […]
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People of HTML5 – Remy Sharp
HTML5 needs spokespeople to work. There are a lot of people out there who took on this role, and here at Mozilla we thought it is a good idea to introduce some of them to you with a series of interviews and short videos. The format is simple – we send the experts 10 questions […]
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It's a wrap! "App Basics for FirefoxOS" is out and ready to get you started
A week ago we announced a series of video tutorials around creating HTML5 apps for Firefox OS. Now we released all the videos and you can watch the series in one go. Photo by Olliver Hallmann The series is aimed at web developers who want to build their first HTML5 application. Specifically it is meant […]
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App discovery – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the previous edition of this video series we introduced FirefoxOS and what it means for the open web and HTML5. We explained that apps for FirefoxOS are HTML5 apps, and could be as simple as a mobile-optimised web site with a manifest file. Now we’re back explaining how Firefox OS is different from other […]