Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Getting you started for the CSS 3D transform Dev Derby (15 minute screencast)
This month’s Mozilla Dev Derby is about CSS 3D transformations and as a reminder and inspiration we thought it a good idea to give you a walk-through of a simple demo: a rotating cube with content on each side. That’s simple? Yes it is! Check the video to see the result: You can also see […]
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Screencast: 3D CSS rollovers and 3D CSS tester
CSS 3D transforms as supported in the latest Aurora allow us to do some nice effects that in the past were only possible in Flash or with a lot of trickery using skewing and filters. I was asked to show a small demo the other day and thought it would be fun to spice up […]
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Firebug for Firefox5/Aurora? Get version 1.8!
Just a quick tip that if you are a developer and you lately upgraded Firefox4 to Firefox5 (or why not give Aurora a try?) it tells you that Firebug is not compatible and can’t find an upgrade. However, there is a compatible version of Firebug (v1.8) available for you: get it here. Now you can […]
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Firefox OS Security: Part 2 – User Experience and Security Updates
When presenting Firefox OS to people, security is a big topic. Can an operating system built on web technologies be secure? What has Mozilla built in to avoid drive-by downloads and malware? How can a browser-based app be secure without making the UX suffer by asking the user to react to a lot of “do […]
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HTML5 audio and audio sprites – this should be simple
As we’re having a HTML5 Audio developer derby this month, I thought it fun to play with audio again. And I found it sadly enough pretty frustrating. One thing I proposed in a lot of talks is using the idea of CSS sprites and apply them to HTML5 audio. You’ll get the same benefits – […]
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Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas
HTML5 Canvas is a very cool feature. Seemingly just an opportunity to paint inside the browser with a very low-level API you can use it to heavily convert and change image and video content in the document. Today, let’s take a quick look at how you can use Canvas and the FileReader API to create […]
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Mozilla Vision 2012: The Future of HTML5 and Web Technologies
We are currently in Tokyo, Japan for the Mozilla Vision 2012 conference and hack day. For two days Mozilla Japan with friends from the other locations are putting up an amazing effort to encourage people to help us educate the next generation of web makers. Being in Japan, all of this is of course wrapped […]
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Mozilla demoparty winners announced
The Demoparty Online Competition 2011 is part of the Mozilla Labs Demoparty Project, an initiative to foster artful exploration of open web technologies. We asked people from the demo scene to have a go at web technologies and (with WebGL being the absolute winner of course) managed to collect over 100 submissions. Now the judges […]
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People of HTML5 – John Allsopp
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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People of HTML5: Mr. Doob
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 […]