Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Firebug for Firefox5/Aurora? Get version 1.8!
Just a quick tip that if you are a developer and you lately upgraded Firefox4 to Firefox5 (or why not give Aurora a try?) it tells you that Firebug is not compatible and can’t find an upgrade. However, there is a compatible version of Firebug (v1.8) available for you: get it here. Now you can […]
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Fun with new technologies at the Firefox 4 launch party in London
For the Firefox 4 launch party in London, England we wanted to show off to the audience why it is such a big thing that we are moving leaps and bounds in the browser market. Here are the slides and notes explaining just how much fun we can have as developers these days if we […]
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Accessibility and web innovation – a constant struggle
I just came back from a small “accessibility tour” giving a talk about accessibility and web innovation in Stockholm, Sweden at Funkas Tillgänglighetsdagar and then in Paris at the W3Cafe meetup. In essence what I was musing about is that there is still a massive disconnect between accessibility and the development world. Accessibility is not […]
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Promoting the use of new web technologies in Lithuania
Last week around 2500 developers, designers, entrepreneurs and managers came to Vilnius, Lithuania to attend the fifth Login conference. Speakers included people from Nokia, Wired, Flattr.com (run by the founder of the Pirate Bay), Tate Modern and Amnesty international and the conference covered everything from viral video over web security and privacy up to bleeding […]
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Syncing page content with HTML5 video (a different kind of webinar)
If you’ve been around the software industry for a little while, you’ve probably attended at least a few “webinars”, where someone does an online presentation, which you can watch and listen to in real time. You might be able to ask questions via a chat window, and if you’re lucky, the presenter will select your […]
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Finding harmony in web development – a talk at London Web
Last week I spoke at the London Web Meetup in London, England about a topic that is close to my heart: finding harmony as a group of professionals in web development. If you come from the outside of our little echo chamber and you see how developers communicate with each other and how we get […]
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Time to build a better web – a talk at Heart and Sole
A few weeks ago Portsmouth in England hosted the first Heart and Sole conference. This new conference had quite some appeal to me because of its nature: it was organised by local people who want to boost the web development market, it had rather unknown speakers who show a lot of great stuff online (and […]
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Multimedia on the web and using HTML5 sensibly
Last week I went to the London Ajax User Meetup in London, England to deliver two talks about HTML5. One was a re-run of a talk I gave at MIT about Multimedia on the web and the second was a call to arms to use HTML5 sensibly. You can go over to Skillsmatter web site […]
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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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People of HTML5 – John Foliot
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 […]