Choosing Firefox as a platform for a Start-up

1. Choosing Firefox
as a platform for a Startup
Matjaž Horvat
twitter.com/mathjazz

2. Start-ups?
Game Over!

3. So WTF?

4. You still
need
the idea.

5. The Persian is one of the oldest
breeds of cat. A Persian without an
established and registered pedigree
is classed as a domestic longhair cat.

6. The Persian is one of the oldest
breeds of cat. A Persian without an
established and registered pedigree
is classed as a domestic longhair cat.
And more

7. No idea
how to deploy?

8. Blogs!

9. Issue #1:
Lots of platforms.

10. Issue #2:
Lots of text.

11. The solution

12. Web widget is a hack in a system
designed to push technical and conceptual
boundaries of existing infrastructure

13. Rules.xml
<rule>
<name>Blogger</name>
<regexp>https?://.*.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=.*</regexp>
<regexp>https?://.*.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=.*</regexp>
<url>http://static.zemanta.com/widgets/blogger.com/loader.js</url>
</rule>

14. CSS trick
<div id=”#zem1”> #zem1 #zem2 #zem3 h3 {
<div id=”#zem2”>
<div id=”#zem3”> }
<!-- Here starts and ends actual widget -->
</div>
</div>
</div>

15. JavaScript traps

16. Amazon S3
150kB extension x 30.000 transfers = 5$

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