Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Talking web standards with Microsoft part 2 – Modern Web Development
In a recently recorded video series for Microsoft’s Channel 9 Rey Bango and Chris Heilmann talked about a few web development topics on camera. The recordings are being edited now but you can get the presentations and the code examples right now. Yesterday you could get the materials of the Building for real standards session. […]
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Talking web standards with Microsoft part 1 – Building for real standards
I just returned from a recording session with Microsoft for their Channel 9 feature. Rey Bango (ex-Mozilla and also ex-Ajaxian) had invited us to chat about a few web development topics on video. The recordings are being edited now but you can get the presentations and the code examples right now. The first session we […]
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Presentation: Web vs. Native at Reasons to be Appy
Yesterday around 300 attendees came to the amazing L.S.O. at St Luke’s in London, England for Reasons to be Appy conference. In nine presentations several speakers covered all kind of concepts around app development, from typography to mobile debugging. Mozilla’s presentation was Christian Heilmann talking about the controversy around the battle of native vs. web […]
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HTML5 conversion and information at Mosync hackathon in Stockholm, Sweden
It is not often that you find yourself in a disused nuclear reactor from the 50s to talk about state-of-the-art web technology. For about a hundred developers and designers this is exactly what happened last Saturday in Stockholm, Sweden. The R1 reactor played host to the Mosync hackathon organised to get developers to try out […]
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Friday fun: Trigger Rally in WebGL
As reported by Creative JS, Jasmine Kent ported her open source Linux racing game Trigger Rally to WebGL to run in HTML5 browsers. In the following video you can see it running pretty smoothly on my MacBook air that is already running 12% of CPU without it starting (as ScreenFlow is recording and VLC was […]
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State of the Web APIs – an interview with John Hammink
As you might be aware, Mozilla is working hard on making mobile development possible with purely open technologies. For this, we are defining a set of APIs to access the hardware of mobile devices called the Web APIs. John Hammink of Mozilla published a blog post on the subject on Monday outlining the current state […]
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Making the wait for the holidays easier – the MDN advent calendar
Tomorrow we will release the MDN advent calendar at http://thewebrocks.com/calendar with a daily link on a web technology product, a MDN wiki page or a great demo collected by us over the last few days. You can get a preview of how the calendar will look and work here: As an extra bonus, we thought […]
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Esteban, Saqib and Craig – three lucky people to join Mozilla at Full frontal
A day ago or so we asked who wants to come to Full Frontal with us, and a few people have given good reasons. We used state of the art algorithms also used in social media impact products (Math.random) to pick the lucky winners. And they are: Esteban Saiz who will also join us the […]
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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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Where on earth? This month's Developer Derby is all about geolocation.
Another month, another Developer Derby. This month we want you to play with something that is not part of the HTML5 stack and we feel it doesn’t get the love it deserves from developers: the geolocation API. Firefox has supported this API for a long time and you can do some pretty cool things with […]