Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Broken promises of HTML5 and what's next? – a presentation at HTML5DevConf
Yesterday Mozilla attended the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco, California to give a keynote presentation. The very packed schedule of the conference already covered a lot of topics around the subject matter, which is why we considered it worth while to contribute with a talk that told tales from the trenches of advocating HTML5 […]
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Much simpler web deployment ahead: Harp.io
There is a gap in the toolset of aspiring web makers and professional web developers at the moment: simple deployment. While it is easy to create a web site, set up a blog or even build your first HTML5 app, the deployment is still not as easy as it should be in this day and […]
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Selling HTML5 to a consulting company
I just spent a weekend in a resort in Mallorca. I was invited by an IT consultancy from Frankfurt to join them at their off-site and give a two hour (re)introduction to HTML5. The audience and the challenge The consultancy is very successful in what they do and are very much a Java / native […]
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HTML5 Web applications and libraries survey – first results
At Mozilla, we are dedicated to keep the web open and independent of a single company or technology. This means that users should have a choice of browsers and technology to use to go online and should not be blocked out because they can’t afford a certain device or are forbidden to change their browser. […]
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Bringing the web to mobiles – Mozilla and Telefonica at Over the Air 2012
A few weeks ago, Over the Air 2012, Englands biggest mobile (un)conference in Bletchley Park, England (home of the first ever computer built to crack the German Enigma encryption machines) attracted a few hundred developers to hear about the latest happenings in the mobile space and hack with them. Mozilla’s contribution was not only the […]
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State of the browser in London, England
Last Saturday in London, England the State of the browser conference brought together developer advocates from almost all browser vendors to give the audience an overview of what is going on in the world of browsers. Browser panel with Bruce Lawson (Opera), Chris Heilmann (Mozilla), Martin Beeby (Microsoft) and Paul Kinlan (Google) My involvement was […]
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Presentation: HTML5 and friends at Mobile World Congress 2012
As part of the WIP Jam at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain we were asked to give and introduction to HTML5 so we sent Chris Heilmann and Joe Stagner to set the record straight in terms of what HTML5 is and what you can do with it. The presentation was on the last […]
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Mozilla and Facebook working together to make mobile browser support more predictable
As announced on the Facebook developer blog and explained in more detail on Brendan Eich’s blog we are one step closer to making the mobile browser market more predictable. Mozilla is happy to support Facebook in forming a Core Mobile Web Platform W3C Community Group in which to curate prioritized, tiered lists of emerging and […]
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People of HTML5: Joe Lambert unshredding images in Canvas
Today we have a quickie for you: Joe Lambert, a web developer from Southampton, England working for Rareloop took on the Instagram engineering challenge of un-shredding a shredded image but instead of using server-side code, he used HTML5 canvas. Here’s a screencast of his solution to the problem: And here we are in a quick […]
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HTML5 live: Rocking the boat – and causing a ripple
Today was the HTML5 live conference in London, England. In this one day conference around 150 attendees learned the why of HTML5, and how to implement it in the current work environment. As Mozilla’s representative I was asked to give a talk on how we are faring as a movement when it comes to HTML5. […]