Presentation Articles
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Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the OS, WebAPIs, hacking and writing apps
In August, Mozilla’s Director of Research Andreas Gal, and one of the lead engineers for Firefox OS, Philipp von Weitershausen, gave a couple of presentations in Brazil about Firefox OS. We’re now happy to share both the videos and the slides, in various formats for you to see or use, giving your own presentations! Videos […]
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Iodide: an experimental tool for scientific communication and exploration on the web
Meet Iodide, an experimental open source tool to help scientists write beautiful interactive documents using web technologies, all within a browser-based iterative workflow that will be familiar to many scientists.
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Vaulting Out of Walled Gardens with Fancy Links
Have you ever noticed that in Twitter, Facebook, Google and Pinterest some links are displayed quite fancily, with preview images, descriptive text summaries and other information? These links are fancy because of metadata in the source code of the web page itself, implemented specifically for the rich display of links inside each of these companies’ […]
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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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Bret Victors "Inventing on principle" – and a few things it inspired
Bret Victor‘s “Inventing on principle” talk (also available on YouTube in case you want to skip ahead) from this year’s CUSEC is one of these hours of your life where you watch something and go “wow”: Video on Vimeo. Bret talks about having a principle to follow when inventing new things. A principle that guides […]
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Launching Evangelism Reps – getting the army of awesome ready to take the stage
Today the Developer Engagement Team has launched the Evangelism Reps program – a special interest group within ReMo. Each year, we get thousands of requests to send Mozilla speakers around the world to talk about HTML5, new web technologies, Mozilla’s mission, our projects, products and more. Now, we would love for you to join the […]
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Leave No One Behind with HTML5 – presentation at FFWD.PRO in Zagreb, Croatia
In June I had the pleasure to speak at the FFWD.PRO conference in Zagreb, Croatia, about HTML5, progressive enhancement and new features and suggested APIs. I had previously spoken with Marko Dugonjic and said that he should really organize a conference in Croatia. Said and done, he acted on it and created FFWD.PRO! So, naturally, […]
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Broken promises of HTML5 and what's next? – a presentation at HTML5DevConf
Yesterday Mozilla attended the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco, California to give a keynote presentation. The very packed schedule of the conference already covered a lot of topics around the subject matter, which is why we considered it worth while to contribute with a talk that told tales from the trenches of advocating HTML5 […]
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Selling HTML5 to a consulting company
I just spent a weekend in a resort in Mallorca. I was invited by an IT consultancy from Frankfurt to join them at their off-site and give a two hour (re)introduction to HTML5. The audience and the challenge The consultancy is very successful in what they do and are very much a Java / native […]
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Keynote on Firefox OS at Campus Party Recife
Chris Heilmann and I just finished our keynote at Campus Party Recife in this lovely Brazilian coastal town. It is amazing to see the enthusiasm and momentum around Firefox OS in the local community. By partnering with Telefonica and their Open Web Device initiative the reception was that much that the organisers had to double […]