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The History and Status of Mozilla Korean Community
1. The history and activities of
Mozilla Korean Communuty
Seokchan Yun
Mozilla Korean Community
http://www.mozilla.or.kr
2. 尹錫璨 Seokchan (Channy) Yun
• Daum.net (2nd Korean Internet Portal, 2004~)
I have been at R&D Institute since 2004
Supporting Daum Open APIs and 3rd Party
Developers (dna.daum.net)
Working at Jeju Island Office (150 / 900 employee)
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3. • Channy’s Blog (2003~)
Subject: Firefox, Web 2.0, Web Standards, Open APIs
Subscribers: over 6,000 people
• Mozilla Korean Communuty (2002~)
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10. • Very hard time
Released Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox and
Thunderbird in every 3 months at the same time.
L10n work ▶Build ▶ Upload to official FTP
Some volunteers for QA of each O/S (Linux, Mac)
• Developing Community (2003~2004)
Opening Mozilla Forum
Opening MozillaZine Korean
Web Standards Evangelism (Starting point of Korean
Web Standards activit)
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23. Characteristics
• Trends of user increasing
“Viral marketing” amang famous bloggers since 2004
“Developer tools” among web engineers
“Expert users” in general
• A number of estimates users
100,000~150,000 (0.5% of Korean Internet users)
40~50% of expert bloggers
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24. Gap
• Cultural gap
Between expert bloggers(0.2~0.3 millions) and portal
bloggers (3 millions)
Firefox users = Geek culture
• Usage gap
Resistance of install of new program (Most people
think IE = Internet)
IE-dependant web sites required Active X plugin.
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26. Factors
• Outer Factors
Leering IE-dependant after Browser War
Not to change to standards methodology because of IE’s
backward compatibility
Absence of reeducation and self-development of web
developers
• Inner Factors
Rapid broadband penetration – Web has changed
entertainment or service oriented.
Requirement of rich functions with plug-in technology
Take a serious view of efficiency rather than accessibility
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28. Problem1. Non standards
• Critical point
W3C DOM vs. MS DOM
document.all -> document.getElementByID
Microsoft Jscript
Character code : EUC-KR vs. UTF-8
• Plug-in point
Misusages of Flash technology
Windows Media Player plug-in
Non standards <object> - not to access video
contents
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30. Problem 2. ActiveX
• The stern realities
Over 30 Active X Plugins installed in general PCs
Hybrid development : Web page + Plug-in
Top market of VeriSign Code Signing Certificate
• Factors
Fast building of National PKI system : IE Active X Plug-in
Easy download of Active X : High broadband network.
Application based web : Enterprise Intranet
Entertainment based web : Online game, Chatting
• Providers of ActiveX plug-in
NPKI: Internet banking, cyber trading, insurance, credit card
processing, and E-gov.
Entertainment: Game, chatting and messaging, DRM
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35. Outer activities
• Active Web Standards Communities
Web Standards Korea – http://webstandards.or.kr
CSS Design Korea – http://forum.standardmag.org
KWAG – http://kwag.net (Accessiblity)
• OpenWeb.or.kr
Legal action against Active X technology in public area and fair
trading issues in other browsers.
Suggestions of alternative technology instead of Active X
• Many books over 10 including translation.
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43. Local Community
• 모질라 한국 공식 홈페이지
http://www.mozilla.or.kr (공식 배포)
http://groups.google.com/group/mozillakorea (포럼)
• 모질라 사용자 커뮤니티
http://forums.mozilla.or.kr (포럼)
• 모질라 부가 기능 (Mozilla Addons)
http://addons.mozilla.org/ko/firefox/ (공식 배포)
http://update.mozilla.or.kr/ (자체 운영)
• 모질라 개발자 센터 (Mozilla Developer Center)
http://developer.mozilla.org/ko/
http://groups.google.com/group/mdckorea (포럼)
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