Category Archives: mozilla

May Open Web Open Mic Toronto: Call for Presenters

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

What: Mozilla Open Web Open Mic When: May 22, 6-9pm ET. Where: Mozilla Toronto, 366 Adelaide St. W, 5th Floor Mozilla Open Web Open Mic (OWOM) is back for May. Put on by the Mozilla Toronto community, OWOM features a … Continue reading →

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Challenge: Take horseplay on the road

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

A couple of weeks ago, our friends at Europtimum responded to our horse gesture (timeline) with the delivery of a most excellent Totoro. For those of you unfamiliar with Totoro, my understanding is that it is a 1980′s Japanese animated … Continue reading →

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Building for Mobile Web Compatibility

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

Last Wednesday’s Open Web Open Mic event at the Mozilla Toronto office was really great. 50-60 people from the Mozilla Toronto community gathered to discuss their projects via a science fair and a series of lightening talks. I had a … Continue reading →

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Who are these managers and what do they do?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

As the Mozilla project has grown so too has our management structure.  There are a number of people with various manager titles involved in the day-to-day operations of many Mozilla projects. You may know some of these people and have … Continue reading →

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No More Snappy Meetings and Other Changes from the Snappy Team

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

I want to summarize a few operational changes coming out of a team discussion during this week’s Snappy work week. Snappy is a collection of mostly discreet sub-projects. For example, Paulo’s work to make downloads async does not overlap with … Continue reading →

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Horsehead Saga Timeline

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

The Mozilla Toronto office has been horsing around with our neighbours across the way. Johnath wrote up a very nice account of what has transpired over the last few weeks. For those that are following along, I present the Horsehead … Continue reading →

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Help wanted: Firefox OS UA detection

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

Firefox for Android and Firefox OS, while based on the same Gecko platform, have one key difference with respect to compatibility: their user agent (UA) string. The difference between the UA strings for these two products is the inclusion of … Continue reading →

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DateCountdown Wikimo Template

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

Have you ever wanted your wiki page to include an automatically updated countdown of the number of days until some event? Well now you can. I have added a DateCountdown template on wiki.mozilla.org that does just this. Using this template … Continue reading →

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Mobile Web Compatibility Nov 9, 2012 – Video update, UA detection tools, Phony for B2G?

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

Video update I gave a short update about mobile Web compatibility during the Oct. 22, 2012, Mozilla project meeting. This update should bring you up-to-speed on the problem and the various initiatives that we have underway to tackle it. The … Continue reading →

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Call for Help: Broken Site Deep Dive Investigation

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

Not too long ago we kicked off an analysis to answer the question, Does aliasing a subset of Webkit CSS properties in Gecko improve mobile Web compatibility? The preliminary results of our small study showed little improvement. The next step … Continue reading →

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