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BlogsTags > mozillaFour short links: 8 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 8, 2013 mozpay — a JavaScript API inspired by google.payments.inapp.buy() but modified for things like multiple payment providers and carrier billing. When a web app invokes navigator.mozPay() in Firefox OS, the device shows a secure window with a concise UI. After authenticating, … Four short links: 29 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 29, 2013 Titan 0.3 Out — graph database now has full-text, geo, and numeric-range index backends. Mozilla Security Community Do a Reddit AMA — if you wanted a list of sharp web security people to follow on Twitter, you could do a … Four short links: 28 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 28, 2012 Mobile Content Strategy — Mobile is a catalyst that can help you make your content tighter without loss of clarity or information. If you make your content work well on mobile, it will work everywhere. Excellent presentation, one I want … Four short links: 12 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 12, 2012 Mozilla Persona -- single sign-on for the web. Interview with Alan Kay (Dr Dobbs Journal) -- The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web,... Four short links: 19 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 19, 2012 Mobile Maps (Luke Wroblewski) -- In the US, Google gets about 31 million users a month on its Maps app on iOS. On average those users spend more than 75 minutes apiece in the app each month. The Importance of Public Traffic Data (Anil Dash) -- Bill Gates and Paul Allen's first collaboration was a startup called Traf-O-Data, which... Four short links: 29 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 29, 2012 StuxNet Deep Dive -- extremely technical talk, but this page has a redux. The presenter's thesis, well-argued, is that StuxNet was absolutely aimed specifically at the Natanz facility. (via Chris Douglas) Smithsonian Digitizing Items (CNet) -- two-person project, only able to do a few items a year, but still an excellent advance. See also Bronwyn Holloway-Smith's art project around... Four short links: 16 November 2011
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 16, 2011 Q&A with Rob O'Callahan (ComputerWorld) -- an excellent insight into how Mozilla sees the world. In particular how proprietary mobile ecosystems are the new proprietary desktop ecosystems, and how the risks for the web are the same (writing for one device, not for all). Bikes That Charge USB Devices -- German bicycle maker Silverback has recently launched two bikes... Four short links: 21 October 2011
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 21, 2011 What Mozilla is Up To (Luke Wroblewski) -- notes from a talk that Brendan Eich gave at Web 2.0 Summit. The new browser war is between the Web and new walled gardens of native networked apps. Interesting to see the effort Mozilla's putting into native-alike Web apps. YouTube Insult Generator (Adrian Holovaty) -- mines YouTube for insults of a... Four short links: 3 October 2011
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 3, 2011 Mozilla's Secure Coding Guidelines -- the Mozilla recommendations for web application security. See also OWASP, Google's Browser Security Handbook and Google's course. Scroller -- MIT-licensed Javascript library for accelerated panning and zooming, from Zynga. (via Hacker News) How Fast-Flux Service Networks Operate -- explanation of a technique used by botnets and other malware hordes to make it hard to... Four short links: 13 September 2011
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 13, 2011 Dan Saffer: How To Lie with Design Research (Google Video) -- Experience shows that, especially with qualitative research like the type designers often do, two researchers can look at the same set of data and draw dramatically different findings from them. As William Blake said, "Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read... Four short links: 27 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 27, 2011 Mozilla Home Dash -- love this experiment in rethinking the browser from Mozilla. They call it a "browse-based browser" as opposed to "search-based browser" (hello, Chrome). Made me realize that, with Chrome, Google's achieved a 0-click interface to search--you search without meaning to as you type in URLs, you see advertising results without ever having visited a web site.... Four short links: 11 November 2010
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 11, 2010 Open Kinect -- less than a week after the bounty for developing an open source driver for Microsoft's Kinect controller was announced, it is claimed. libfreenect is the software. CCAN -- the Comprehensive C Archive Network. TextCAPTCHAs -- simple questions, written in English, that are accessible to blind users. F1 -- Mozilla browser extension for sharing links via Twitter,... Four short links: 27 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 27, 2010 Socorro: Mozilla's Crash Reporting System (Laura Thomson) -- We receive on our peak day each week 2.5 million crash reports, and process 15% of those, for a total of 50 GB. In total, we receive around 320Gb each day. Moving to a Hadoop-based system in the future, as they're limited by database and filesystem storage. DIY Atomic Force Microscopy... Four short links: 5 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 5, 2010 Sketch for Processing -- an IDE for Processing based on Mozilla's Bespin. British Election Results to be Broadcast on Big Ben -- the monument is the message. Lovely integration of real-time data and architecture, an early step for urban infrastructure as display. Face.com API -- an alpha API for face recognition. Average Number of Books/Kindle -- short spreadsheet figuring... Four short links: 23 January 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 25, 2010 WikiLeaks Fundraising -- PayPal has frozen WikiLeaks' assets. Interesting: they need $600k/yr to run. The Great Australian Internet Blackout -- online protest to raise awareness about the Great Firewall of Australia. HTML5 Video: Problems Ahead -- YouTube and Vimeo won't support a free codec (file format). The web is undeniably better for Mozilla having entered the browser market, and... Four short links: 7 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 7, 2009 App Engine Now Supports XMPP (Jabber) -- messaging servers, whether XMPP or PubSubHubBub, are becoming an increasingly important way to loosely join the small pieces. Google's incorporation of XMPP into GAE reflects this (and the fact that Wave is built on XMPP). (via StPeter on Twitter) Snakes on the Web (Jacob Kaplan-Moss) -- The best way to predict the... Four short links: 21 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 21, 2009 Us Now -- UK documentary, available streaming or on DVD, about how open government and digital democracy makes sense. It's good to watch if you've not thought about how government could be positively changed by technology, but I don't think it's radical enough in the future it describes. It's Gonna Be The Future Soon -- great video for the... Recovering text areas from Firefox session information
By Uche OgbujiJanuary 13, 2009 A small Python utility to extract saved text area content from Firefox session files. Turbo-charging JavaScript - Trace Trees and V8 
By Kurt CagleSeptember 21, 2008 Persistence, performance, rich APIs and increasing broadband connectivity are all likely to make a huge difference for this latest generation of browsers, and the quantum improvement of JavaScript capabilities due to Trace Trees and precompiled JavaScript will likely play a major part in that evolution. No EULA for Mozilla FirefoxBy chromaticSeptember 17, 2008 Mitchell Baker of Mozilla reports that they have revised their decision to include a EULA-like notification in the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution. The debate over Mozilla's decision reveals two important debates in the free software world. Audio: Mozilla's Frank Hecker on Politics 2.0, Open Source, and Participatory Democracy
By Timothy M. O'BrienSeptember 12, 2008 O'Reilly News interviews Mozilla's Frank Hecker at Personal Democracy Forum 2008 in New York City. In this 25 minute interview you'll hear Frank Hecker talking about Mozilla's mission and structure, as well as his own views on how open source could provide a model for involving citizens in participatory democracy. Seeking Ubiquity
By Kurt CagleSeptember 9, 2008 The command line is perhaps the most fundamental of all user interfaces - at a terminal, a prompt character appears that you can type in a command with zero or more arguments, then press the Return key to evaluate that command. As an interface it has some serious limitations - there are typically few indications about what specifically can be typed into that interface, or the action that will ensue once you do enter the line, but for programmers in particular, the command line is also the foundation on which every other user interface ultimately rests. Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 2
By Ben LongoriaFebruary 20, 2008 In the first part of this series I gave an introductory look at Mozilla, and started to answer the statement posed in the title. In this article we'll look at the various RIA technologies and runtimes that Mozilla has to offer. First we'll look at the building blocks, or what one would use to build applications. Then we'll look at runtimes, what you use to run your applications. Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 1
By Ben LongoriaFebruary 20, 2008 In this series of articles I will be looking at why RIA developers should be interested in Mozilla. This is an important topic, especially if you're one of those wise and pragmatic developers who likes to pick the right tool for the job, which we all are right? Learning about the breadth of the technologies that Mozilla's projects cover can potentially save you a lot of work for your next project! Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 3
By Ben LongoriaFebruary 19, 2008 In the previous two articles we looked at who Mozilla is, what technologies they have, and attempted to answer the statement in the title. To be well-rounded, we will look at some core issues that may be hampering adoption of Mozilla technologies, and what could help. 1 to 25 of 25 Stay Connected
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