Articles by Chris Heilmann
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HTML5 context menus in Firefox (Screencast and Code)
You may not know it, but the HTML5 specifications go beyond what we put in the pages and also define how parts of the browser should become available to developers with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. One of these parts of the specs are context menus, or “right click menus”. Using HTML5 and a menu element […]
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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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Esteban, Saqib and Craig – three lucky people to join Mozilla at Full frontal
A day ago or so we asked who wants to come to Full Frontal with us, and a few people have given good reasons. We used state of the art algorithms also used in social media impact products (Math.random) to pick the lucky winners. And they are: Esteban Saiz who will also join us the […]
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Want to go to Full Frontal in Brighton, England this Friday? We got tickets!
photo by Lily Full Frontal is a JavaScript centric conference in Brighton, England on the 11/11/11. The simplest way to describe it is “a splendid kick into your lower back side” event when it comes to what’s hot and amazing int he world of scripting. The Mozilla Developer Network has 3 tickets to give out, […]
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Beam me up, Scotty – bringing HTML5 to the enterprise
The last few days I was busy talking to in-house developers at two large enterprise companies, Sabre in Poland and SAP in Germany. Both these companies approached us asking for a talk about HTML5 as the topic gets a lot of interest in the upper echelons and there is a lot of confusion about it. […]
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CSS 3D transformations in Firefox Nightly
When the first 3D transformations in CSS got support on Webkit browsers people got incredibly excited about them. Now that they have matured we also support 3D CSS in Firefox. To see it for yourself, check out one of the latest nightly builds. You can see them in action in this demo of a rotating […]
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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. […]
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HTML5: Time for some slicker apps – a talk at Kings of Code
The Kings of code conference in Amsterdam attracted a few hundred backend developers. Part hackday, part conference, Kings of Code spans over a few days and brings together developers from various backgrounds. The ambitious goal of the Mozilla keynote was to cover the relevant parts of HTML5 and CSS3 for this audience in 25 minutes. […]
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Geolocation explained – a quick screencast
If you’ve been here last week, you might have seen the webinar and geolocation Q&A with Remy Sharp. Sadly enough, we had a problem recording the screen so we recorded this replacement screencast yesterday night to give you a quick introduction to the Geolocation API. Once you are up to speed (or refreshed your memory) […]