Articles by Chris Heilmann
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HTML5 at FOSDEM2011 – Oven Fresh Web Tech means Kernel folk
I just returned from my first ever FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium – a hard-core open source conference with more Linux Distros and amazing open source software packages being showcased that I could take in (although this might also be because of the fact that the conference served beer all day). The free conference attracts […]
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An interesting way to determine if you are logged into social web sites
Do you remember the trick how to find out that you went to certain web sites by analysing link colour (now patched in Firefox)? There is much your browser tells about you if you just create a few HTML elements. Mike Cardwell has found an interesting way to detect if you are logged into social […]
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People of HTML5 – Rob Hawkes
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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ECMAScript 5 strict mode in Firefox 4
Editor’s note: This article is posted by Chris Heilmann but authored by Jeff Walden – credit where credit is due. Developers in the Mozilla community have made major improvements to the JavaScript engine in Firefox 4. We have devoted much effort to improving performance, but we’ve also worked on new features. We have particularly focused […]
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Simple HTML5 video encoding with vid.ly – interview, first impressions and invite code
Today encoding.com released a new service called vid.ly which is not yet another URL shortener, but actually a very impressive service for converting video. One of the biggest annoyance of using HTML5 video is to convert your movie to various formats supported by different browsers. Vid.ly does this job for you: it converts the video […]
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Zooming and rotating for video in HTML5 and CSS3
The source of the code examples in this post is available on GitHub and you can see the demo in action. There are dozens of video players that allow you to do all the normal things with videos: play, pause, jump to a certain time and so on. More advanced ones also allow you to […]
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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 […]
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People of HTML5 – Remy Sharp
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 – Bruce Lawson
Leggi la traduzione in italiano 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 […]
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A call for quality HTML5 demo markup
HTML5 is a necessary evolution to make the web better. Before the HTML5 specs were created we used (and still use) a hacked together bunch of systems meant for describing and linking documents to create applications. We use generic elements to simulate rich interaction modules used in desktop development and we make assumptions as to […]