Articles by Chris Heilmann
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Mozilla Vision 2012 day two – here come the web makers of tomorrow
One day after the conference part of Mozilla Vision 2012 volunteers, Mozilla staff and friends organised a “hackday” event in a burger cafe (of all places) in Tokyo. The twist: instead of catering to developer hackers the audience was web makers – and in this case those of the future: Yes, we mostly had kids […]
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Mozilla Vision 2012: The Future of HTML5 and Web Technologies
We are currently in Tokyo, Japan for the Mozilla Vision 2012 conference and hack day. For two days Mozilla Japan with friends from the other locations are putting up an amazing effort to encourage people to help us educate the next generation of web makers. Being in Japan, all of this is of course wrapped […]
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New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox
As explained in this blog post by Jared Wein of the Firefox team there are quite a few new features in Firefox when it comes to playing HTML5 video. As an Aurora user, I am most excited about the option to go full-screen, the ability to overlay video statistics and to save a snapshot of […]
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BrowserID at the London Ajax meetup
Yesterday at the London Ajax Meetup I spoke about “Rethinking User Registration with BrowserID”. In the (roughly) half hour talk I covered the need for new login systems on the web, what is broken now, how BrowserID is a solution for these issues and showed how easy it is to create a BrowserID login (both […]
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Screencast: 3D CSS rollovers and 3D CSS tester
CSS 3D transforms as supported in the latest Aurora allow us to do some nice effects that in the past were only possible in Flash or with a lot of trickery using skewing and filters. I was asked to show a small demo the other day and thought it would be fun to spice up […]
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Moving browsers and the web forward (video)
A few days ago I was asked to deliver the first talk of the amazing Beyond Tellerand conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. The talk Breaking the barriers – moving browsers and the web forward introduced a lot of new ideas and technologies that are worked on my Mozilla and others to make the web of the […]
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State of the Web APIs – an interview with John Hammink
As you might be aware, Mozilla is working hard on making mobile development possible with purely open technologies. For this, we are defining a set of APIs to access the hardware of mobile devices called the Web APIs. John Hammink of Mozilla published a blog post on the subject on Monday outlining the current state […]
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Making the wait for the holidays easier – the MDN advent calendar
Tomorrow we will release the MDN advent calendar at http://thewebrocks.com/calendar with a daily link on a web technology product, a MDN wiki page or a great demo collected by us over the last few days. You can get a preview of how the calendar will look and work here: As an extra bonus, we thought […]
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People of HTML5: Joe Lambert unshredding images in Canvas
Today we have a quickie for you: Joe Lambert, a web developer from Southampton, England working for Rareloop took on the Instagram engineering challenge of un-shredding a shredded image but instead of using server-side code, he used HTML5 canvas. Here’s a screencast of his solution to the problem: And here we are in a quick […]
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Luke Crouch on: HTML5 – code for all the platforms
Back in October, Luke Crouch, one of the web developers working on the Mozilla Developer Network went to Techfest in Tulsa, Oklahoma to tell people all about HTML5. You can see his slides with his voiceover at Usergroup.tv: Luke gave an overview on the history of HTML5 vs. XHTML and the approaches of the W3C […]