Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Firefox OS Security: Part 2 – User Experience and Security Updates
When presenting Firefox OS to people, security is a big topic. Can an operating system built on web technologies be secure? What has Mozilla built in to avoid drive-by downloads and malware? How can a browser-based app be secure without making the UX suffer by asking the user to react to a lot of “do […]
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Firefox OS Security: Part 1 – The Web Security Model
When presenting Firefox OS to people, security is a big topic. Can an operating system built on web technologies be secure? What has Mozilla built in to avoid drive-by downloads and malware? In this two part video series Christian Heilmann (@codepo8), principal evangelist of Mozilla, talks to Michael Coates (@_mwc), chair of @OWASP Board about […]
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Firefox OS Development: Web Components and Mozilla Brick
In this edition of “Firefox OS: The platform HTML5 deserves” (the previous six videos are published here), Mozilla’s Principal Evangelist Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) grilled Mozilla’s “Senior HTML5 Engineer Angle Bracket Coordinator” Matthew Claypotch (@potch) about the exciting new possibilities of Web Components for Web App developers and how Mozilla’s Brick library, a collection of custom […]
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Web Activities – Firefox OS: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the sixth video of our “Firefox OS – the platform HTML5 deserves” series (the previous five videos are published here) we talk about how Web Activities allow you as a developer to access parts of the hardware without having to package your app. Check out the video featuring Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) from Mozilla and […]
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WebAPIs – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the fifth video of our “Firefox OS – the platform HTML5 deserves” series (part one, part two, part three and part four have already been published) we talk about how Firefox OS extends the capabilities of the Web by adding new APIs, called WebAPIs to the existing stack of technologies. Check out the video […]
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New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25
Firefox 25 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel which means we are back to report about new features in Firefox Developer Tools. Here’s a summary of some of the most exciting new features, and to get the whole picture you can check the complete list of resolved bugzilla tickets. Black box libraries in […]
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Firefox Marketplace and alternatives – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the fourth video of our “Firefox OS – the platform HTML5 deserves” series (part one, part two and part three have already been published) we talk about how to submit apps to the Firefox Marketplace, and explain alternative ways to distribute your apps. Here are Mozilla’s principal developer evangelist Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) and Desigan […]
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Getting started with apps – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the third instance of our “Firefox OS – the platform HTML5 deserves” video series (part one and part two have already been published here) we talk about tools available for building apps for Firefox OS. Check the short video featuring Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) from Mozilla and Daniel Appelquist (@torgo) from Telefónica Digital/ W3C talking […]
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App discovery – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the previous edition of this video series we introduced FirefoxOS and what it means for the open web and HTML5. We explained that apps for FirefoxOS are HTML5 apps, and could be as simple as a mobile-optimised web site with a manifest file. Now we’re back explaining how Firefox OS is different from other […]
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Introducing… our new evangelists
It is with great pride that we can announce three new faces in our midst, three people Mozilla just managed to hire to do Firefox OS developer outreach. Over the next few months you will hear and read a lot from these, that’s why we thought we start by introducing them with some short interviews. […]
