Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Introducing… our new evangelists
It is with great pride that we can announce three new faces in our midst, three people Mozilla just managed to hire to do Firefox OS developer outreach. Over the next few months you will hear and read a lot from these, that’s why we thought we start by introducing them with some short interviews. […]
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Building a simple paint game with HTML5 Canvas and Vanilla JavaScript
When the talk is about HTML5 Canvas you mostly hear about libraries to make it work for legacy browsers, performance tricks like off-screen Canvas and ways to draw and animate sprites and tiles. This is only one part of Canvas, though. On the lowest level, Canvas is a way to manipulate pixels of a portion […]
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Happy Pi Day!
As today is Pi Day have you ever realised that rotating 3.14 180 degrees almost spells “PI.E”? JSFiddle demo. And yes, Firefox 11 is now official, bring on the 3D transforms.
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Moving browsers and the web forward (video)
A few days ago I was asked to deliver the first talk of the amazing Beyond Tellerand conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. The talk Breaking the barriers – moving browsers and the web forward introduced a lot of new ideas and technologies that are worked on my Mozilla and others to make the web of the […]
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Screencast: CSS 3D rollover with fallback for older browsers
Here’s a quick screencast how to create a 3D image rollover and still give a useful interface to browsers that do not support 3D transforms. If you want to see the effect in Firefox get the latest Aurora or Nightly. Check the following video to see what it looks like (first with a browser without […]
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Accelerating the overall web experience – Mozilla at Velocity Europe
This year’s Velocity EU conference had a special presentation round where browser makers talked about the performance of their specific products. I was invited last minute to represent Firefox and originally was asked to show benchmarks, impressive demos and how we compare to others. As browsers get released in very short intervals these days, this […]
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With the power of HTML5 – speaking at Converge SE in Columbia, SC
Last week the Converge SE conference in Columbia, South Carolina attracted about 400 designers, developers and product managers to attend workshops and hear keynotes about all that is new and great in web development. As you can see on the conference schedule the conference covered a lot of topics, ranging from building communities and providing […]
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HTML5 and the web of tomorrow – live from Web2Day in Nantes, France
I am currently here in Nantes, France at the Web2Day conference giving a talk on the topic of HTML5 and how it affects the audience (consisting of business people, startups, managers and a few developers. The slides of the talk are available Slideshare: The talk was streamed live via UStream and the recording is available […]
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Jolicloud – a web standards based OS
Seeing what other people do in an audience at a conference can be interesting. When waiting for the next talk in the incredibly claustrophobic seats at FOSDEM last week I saw something that got my attention: the Desktop of an operating system being debugged using a web inspector: Turns out, the guys doing that are […]
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Talking about HTML5 games development at MIT in Boston
As part of our university outreach programme, a few Mozilla people and volunteers went to Boston last week to give a series of lectures on web technologies for games development. During the week we covered topics like WebGL for 3D development, basics of JavaScript, debugging and performance, canvas development, offline development and local storage and […]