another step forward for open video on the web
Today, Google announced that it is joining Mozilla and Opera in exclusively supporting open video codecs — to wit, WebM and Theora — in their Chrome browser. It’s a great move, and one we at Mozilla...
View Articlehey web-talker, talk web to me
Mozilla is hiring a technical evangelist to help the world get the most out of the web. It’s a position with a scope as broad as the web itself, bringing Mozilla’s keen sense of the web to people...
View Articleengines half, straight ahead
As I mentioned in my overlong post about my bipolar disorder, the treatment plan informed by my new diagnosis is working quite well. Well enough, in fact, that I was able to give a short talk at the...
View ArticleI made a thing
A while ago I made a prototype of a simple, high-performance keyword search for bugzilla, using python and Redis. It was pretty promising, able to do all/any queries against the summaries of all open...
View Articleback in a new saddle
I started back at work at the beginning of last week, after more than 4 months of illness. It is very exciting for me. I was like a kid before Christmas the night before my first day back. I am rarely...
View Articlea three-dimensional platform
Firefox now includes, on all desktop platforms, support for a technology known as WebGL. WebGL allows web developers to use accelerated 3D graphics, including textures and shaders; it exposes the same...
View Articleenterprise
Supporting enterprise deployments has always been challenging for Mozilla (and for enterprise deployers), but we’ve nonetheless had some success; one Forrester study from 2010 indicated that Firefox...
View Articlemoving on
It’s starting to get around, because my co-workers are bad at secrets, so I’ll summarize for “the record”. I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on from the Mozilla Corporation, where I have...
View Articleapproaches to performance
[This post doesn't have links to anything, and it really should. I'm a bit pressed for time, but I'll try to come back later and fix that.] Important: I no longer work for Mozilla, and I haven’t yet...
View Articlesuch sweet sorrow
One of the hardest decisions I’ve made in my life was the one I made in September to leave my job at Mozilla. And one of the hardest things about that decision was writing the email to my colleagues...
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