Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Dr.Seuss and Persona – Mozilla at Webvisions Barcelona
Last week Webvisions, a 3 day conference covering everything UX and web lured a few hundred enthusiasts to the sunny Barcelona. Mozilla sent Crystal Beasley and Chris Heilmann to talk about logging into the web with Persona and the future of the web. Crystal gave a workshop on login systems and how to improve them […]
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MDN hack day tomorrow in the #mozldn space in London, England
We cleared the aftermath of yesterday’s epic Geek Quiz (photo proof here) but there is no rest for the wicked in the London Mozilla Space. Tomorrow (yes, that day after this one) we’ll run an MDN hack day here in 101 St. Martin’s Lane, London (5 minute footwalk from Leicester Square or 10 from Charing […]
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People of HTML5: Andrew Betts on building the FT.com HTML5 app
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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Mozilla Vision 2012 day two – here come the web makers of tomorrow
One day after the conference part of Mozilla Vision 2012 volunteers, Mozilla staff and friends organised a “hackday” event in a burger cafe (of all places) in Tokyo. The twist: instead of catering to developer hackers the audience was web makers – and in this case those of the future: Yes, we mostly had kids […]
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BrowserID at the London Ajax meetup
Yesterday at the London Ajax Meetup I spoke about “Rethinking User Registration with BrowserID”. In the (roughly) half hour talk I covered the need for new login systems on the web, what is broken now, how BrowserID is a solution for these issues and showed how easy it is to create a BrowserID login (both […]
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HTML5: Time for some slicker apps – a talk at Kings of Code
The Kings of code conference in Amsterdam attracted a few hundred backend developers. Part hackday, part conference, Kings of Code spans over a few days and brings together developers from various backgrounds. The ambitious goal of the Mozilla keynote was to cover the relevant parts of HTML5 and CSS3 for this audience in 25 minutes. […]
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Webinar: Deconstructing HTML5 video (The Spirit of Indiana Jones, Redux)
Update 2011-07-20: The video recording of this webinar is now available: On Thursday, July 14th, at 16:00 UTC, Chris Heilmann will give second in the (so far sporadic) Mozilla Developer Engagement webinar series, discussing syncing HTML5 video with Google maps, using his “Spirit of Indiana Jones” demo as an example. Chris has already blogged about […]
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People of HTML5 – Seb Lee Delisle
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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Time to build a better web – a talk at Heart and Sole
A few weeks ago Portsmouth in England hosted the first Heart and Sole conference. This new conference had quite some appeal to me because of its nature: it was organised by local people who want to boost the web development market, it had rather unknown speakers who show a lot of great stuff online (and […]
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Firefox Marketplace and alternatives – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the fourth video of our “Firefox OS – the platform HTML5 deserves” series (part one, part two and part three have already been published) we talk about how to submit apps to the Firefox Marketplace, and explain alternative ways to distribute your apps. Here are Mozilla’s principal developer evangelist Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) and Desigan […]