Mozilla And Open Web

Mozilla, Firefox, and the Open Web HTML5, Web Hacks, Add-ons, Jetpack, Mobile & More Brian King Free Software & Linux Days Istanbul, Turkey - 3 April 2010

Manifesto The Mozilla Manifesto http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto

Mozilla 2010 Goals 1. Openness, participation, and distributed decision making in Internet life 2. Make data safer, more useful, and more manageable 3. Integrate mobile into one unified, open and innovative Web 4. Reinforce Firefox role as a driver for innovation, choice, and a great user experience

Why Firefox? Open Source Safe Customisable 350+ million users (~25% market share) Made by a public benefit, not-for-profit organisation Devoted to enriching people’s lives by preserving choice and innovation on the Internet Global (Firefox 3.6 - 73+ locales)

Firefox 3.5 New Features for Web Developers Tracemonkey - faster JavaScript Audio Video Web Worker threads XMLHttpRequest enhancements Geolocation Offline Storage

JavaScript 3.6 Consolidation of 3.5 features, speedier JavaScript, and: New CSS features Drag and Drop File API Web Open Font Format Device Orientation And more...

hacks.mozilla.org

Video More than just a tag: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/07/video-more-than-just-a-tag/ Attributes JavaScript API Events http://openvideoalliance.org/ Player: http://jilion.com/sublime/video Converters: Miro, VLC, Pitivi

Web Workers var worker = new Worker("worker.js"); // Create worker object worker.postMessage(0); // Message the worker file // Triggered by postMessage in the worker file worker.onmessage = function (event) { alert(event.data); }; worker.js onmessage = function (evt) { // Receive value from postMessage, //process it and send it back postMessage(valueBack) };

Worker Usage * Supported in Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4, and upcoming in Chrome Beware of spawning too many threads which can cause odd browser behaviour Sometimes processing on the single thread can be faster, e.g. processing a large image and rendering it

Geolocation Not part of HTML5 but the Geolocation API Specification. if (navigator.geolocation) { navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function (position) { alert(position.coords.latitude + ", " + position. coords.longitude); }); } More information from Robert Nyman

D&D, XHR and File API XHR Enhancements cross-domain progress indicators File API W3C Specification asynchronously read from the filesystem DEMO time

The Hackable Web Advocated by Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Europe http://www.slideshare.net/nitot/hackability-what-it-means-why- its-important The browser should provide tools for ... accessibility and mashing-up content enabling other tools Wikipedia, Twitter, Flickr, Open Street Maps, ... and millions more.

2+ Billion Add-ons!

Why Add-ons? Core to the Mozilla mission of “choice & innovation” Huge momentum versus other browsers. Customization is a key differentiator for Firefox and helps users feel like Firefox is “mine” Innovation incubator 1st class deployment infrastructure at Mozilla Add-ons (AMO)

AMO - Fun Facts 2B downloaded from AMO (1.2M daily visitors) 250M add-ons in use Add-ons from AMO have been shared 140,000 times 33-50% of Firefox installs have at least one add-on Average number of add-ons per user is 5 Add-on Store by the end of 2010

Vibrant Ecosystem of Startups

The Majors

3.7 Redesign - Add-ons in a Tab

Jetpack, aka Add-ons 2.0

Jetpack Web-Based : Attractive to Web Developers More secure Remixable Robust - Versioned API No restart / Silent updates

Mobile Guidance principle: Bring the Web to mobile phones in a richer, broader way than before. Make the Web a platform for developers to create compelling content and applications for mobile devices.

Picture by Kai Hendry.

Mobile - Features Tabs, Awesome Bar, Bookmarks, and so on... ... so, everything you expect from a browser. Gestures, Panning, Zooming ... device dependent features ** NEW features being added all the time... form autocomplete, tap-n-hold-context, site preferences, portrait rotation, scroll indicators, ...

Mobile Add-ons

Drumbeat Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of Mozillians who *use* web technology in new ways to understand, participate and take control of their online lives. Propose a project, get involved. http://www.drumbeat.org/

Get Involved Giving Back, in many ways... Write patches Documentation File Bugs IRC Evangalism

Thanks! brian@mozdev.org Twitter: @brianking Blog: http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk

Mozilla And Open Web

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