Articles by Chris Heilmann
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FoxIE – a video training series on web standards with Microsoft
About a month ago Chris Heilmann of Mozilla went to Miami, Florida to shoot a series of training videos with Rey Bango of Microsoft. Now these videos are available on Microsoft’s Channel9 as the FoxIE training series. In a very off-the-cuff discussion format between Rey and Chris we covered a few topics: Introducing FoxIE has […]
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Taking About:Home Snippets to the Next Level.
If you are a Firefox user and you start the browser this morning or you type “about:home” in the URL bar we have a surprise for you. Instead of the Firefox logo you’ll see an animation celebrating the global spirit of community. This is just one of many planned enhancements to mozilla.org pages and mozilla […]
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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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Want to fix the mobile web with us? Please answer some questions we have!
At Mozilla our main reason to be is to keep the web open and free for everybody. We are passionate about the web and love how easy it is to get started as a developer. A few years ago we fought against monoculture on the desktop and won. Now we have the new challenge to […]
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Dr.Seuss and Persona – Mozilla at Webvisions Barcelona
Last week Webvisions, a 3 day conference covering everything UX and web lured a few hundred enthusiasts to the sunny Barcelona. Mozilla sent Crystal Beasley and Chris Heilmann to talk about logging into the web with Persona and the future of the web. Crystal gave a workshop on login systems and how to improve them […]
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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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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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MDN hack day tomorrow in the #mozldn space in London, England
We cleared the aftermath of yesterday’s epic Geek Quiz (photo proof here) but there is no rest for the wicked in the London Mozilla Space. Tomorrow (yes, that day after this one) we’ll run an MDN hack day here in 101 St. Martin’s Lane, London (5 minute footwalk from Leicester Square or 10 from Charing […]