We’re hosting a conference on September 15 - 16th, taking place online and at locations in Japan, Europe and the San Francisco Bay Area. Mozilla 24 will feature industry and community leaders who will present on Web trends and technologies that will help shape the future of the Web. Current speakers include:
- Dr. Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google Inc
- Dr. Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society
- Dr. Jun Murai, professor of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and Vice President at Keio University
- David Humphrey, professor at the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada
- Mitchell Baker, Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation
- Mike Shaver, Director of Ecosystem, Mozilla Corporation
- Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe
- Satoko Takita, Chairman of Mozilla Japan
We’re looking for developers, researchers, students, academics and anyone interested in shaping the future of the Web socially, technically and culturally to join us. Sign up to attend the U.S. event at Stanford. We’re still working out technical sessions so speak up if there is anything you want on the agenda. Thanks!
Posted August 14th, 2007 by mfinkle in Events, General | Comments Off
New Training and Whitepaper on IE 7 Security Now Available
- Companies have had many questions about deploying and securing IE7 on the desktop
- Microsoft released an Internet Explorer Desktop Security Guide that discusses many of the new security features along with recommended settings
PithHelmet 2.7 beta released
- PithHelmet adds content filtering (ads, flash, shockwave, midi loops, etc.) to the Safari browser
- This version was engineered specifically to work with the Safari 3 betas
Posted August 10th, 2007 by galen in Browsers, General, Web Development | Comments Off
Windows Vienna and IE 8 features leaked
IE 8
- Undo close tab (like Firefox)
- Saving and restoring sessions (like Firefox)
Windows Vienna
- Virtual desktops (like Linux)
- Ability to rearrange items on the task bar
- Customizable themes
- Windows Core: the ability to separate GUI and console from each other as in Windows Server 2008
- All applications not specifically written for Vienna or in .NET will be run on a separate virtual machine
Breaking Down the Walls Of Phones’ Web Gardens
Users are looking for a cell phone browser experience closer to that of their laptops
Browsers are limited by wireless carrier support
- Ability to download music and video
- Opera Mini can’t be used on Verizon cellphones
Microsoft is working on a mobile browser called Deep Fish
Opera makes money on Opera Mini by licensing it to handset makers and wireless carriers, and sharing ad revenue
More users browse on cell phones than on computers in some developing countries
Posted August 3rd, 2007 by galen in Browsers, General, Web Development | Comments Off
Opera 9.5 to have screen reader support
On Windows:
- Support for the Microsoft Accessibility API (MSAA).
- Close cooperation with other screen reader vendors.
On Mac:
- Support of the Mac API for Accessibility.
- Support of VoiceOver.
Flock Community Ambassador starts holding weekly “Office Hours”
To gather user feedback, Flock Community Ambassador Evan Hamilton is now holding Community “Office Hours” every Monday from 11a-12p PST
During this time, Evan focuses solely on communicating with the Flock community via irc, email, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, and Skype
Introduction to Information Cards
An open standard for identity on the web
Information Cards can be considered to be a “heavier” protocol than the other technologies (LiveID, BBAuth, OpenID)
Provides password-less login, phishing-resistance, and consistent cross-platform UI
Posted July 27th, 2007 by galen in Accessibility, Browsers, General, Web Development | Comments Off
Intel has launched the Mobile & Linux Internet Project (http://moblin.org), an open source initiative focusing on mobile Linux projects. The project is working on a mobile, Mozilla-based web browser that includes a finger-friendly UI. The browser will include support for many of the same technologies and web standards found in other Mozilla-based browsers. Check it out.
Posted July 20th, 2007 by mfinkle in Browsers, Developing Mozilla, Embedding Mozilla | Comments Off
This weekly roundup contains a summary of the most important browser
developments that came through the competitive tracking feeds.
I’ve archived this information here
Opera Watch asked its community for each person’s Top 5 features desired for Opera. Here’s a sample of what’s been requested (more *’s means more requests):
Auto-update (like Firefox) *****
Developer tools (like Firefox’s Firebug extension) *****
A better marketing campaign ****
Integrated inline spell check ***
More powerful RSS feeds reader **
- RSS in a side panel of its own
- Option to subscribe to other feed readers
Better widget integration **
Improved UI/user friendliness - special effects and a generally slicker interface **
Ability to add more “auto-complete” forms **
Ad blocker (like Firefox Ad Block extension)
A built-in feature that gets rid of duplicate bookmarks
A feature to archive webpages
userJS repository (like Firefox)
Opera Mini tied to GPS in people’s phones
Delete multiple passwords from saved passwords list
Better CSS3 support
- Easier way to specify site specific CSS files (to override designs)
- RGBA
System update for skins and widgets (located @ Opera)
Ability for skins to modify menus as well (like Firefox)
A way to easily export/backup newsfeeds, mail, bookmarks, toolbars, menus etc. all together
Improved options on right click
Improved document type mixing
More Mac like interface (which is on the way)
Domain name completion, like Ctrl+Enter for .com
Integrated database of custom buttons like the ones on http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons
To be able to customize side-bar as address bar: drag buttons, etc.
For Opera Mini: A way to save webpages on memory phone.
Opera 9.22 released on 7/19, which includes the following key features:
Security update
Improved BitTorrent download speeds
Support for the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in
Flock 0.9 released on 7/10, which includes the following key features:
MyWorld: a dynamic home base for all your favorite sites, feeds, and media streams
Flock’s Media MiniBar provides fast access to both photos and videos on Flickr, Photobucket, Youtube, and Truveo.
The new Accounts & Services sidebar offers easier configuration and enhanced discovery and activation logic
Improved Favorites with folders and support for Ma.gnolia and del.icio.us
Blogging: Improved UI, integrated Clipboard, support for all major Blog services including Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad and Livejournal
Security improvements
In-line spell check
Overall Theme upgrade
Posted July 20th, 2007 by galen in Browsers, General, Web Development | Comments Off
A system is now in place to track Web browser industry developments by aggregating blog feeds with Yahoo! Pipes. These pipes track official and unofficial news on Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Flock, Maxthon, and other browsers.
If you’re interested in checking it out, please subscribe to these pipes by importing this .opml file into your preferred blog reader.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to this single feed.
You can expect a large initial dump of articles, followed by an average of 5-10 articles daily.
There will be a weekly roundup with a summary of the most important browser developments that came through the competitive tracking feeds.
For additional info, visit the wiki.
Please ping galen -at- mozilla -dot- com if you have any thoughts or feedback.
Posted July 20th, 2007 by galen in Browsers, General, Web Development | Comments Off
Earlier today, Flock updated the Flock 0.7 release to 0.7.13. Release notes are available here.
Additionally, developer.flock.com has announced the availability of the Flock 0.8.0 Developer Preview, codenamed “Sulfur”. Release notes and known issues are available here.
Posted May 3rd, 2007 by dria in Browsers | Comments Off
The Shiira Project released version 2.0 of the Shiira browser earlier this week. This OSX-only web browser is based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa, with their stated goal being “to create a browser that is better and more useful than [Apple’s] Safari“. You can check out the screenshots and feature list here. All code used in Shiira is publicly available under the modified BSD licenses.
Posted April 26th, 2007 by dria in Browsers | Comments Off
Keeping up with “Web 2.0″ news is not unlike counting pebbles during an avalanche; there’s a pretty huge stream of incoming content, and it’s really hard to keep up.
If you’re tired of your RSS reader flashing “32,767 unread articles” at you, check out Original Signal, which gives you a single-glance look at what’s going on now in the Web 2.0 news world. Clever DHTML makes it easy to drill down.
Posted October 5th, 2006 by beltzner in General, Web 2.0, Web Development | Comments Off
