This document summarizes Gen Kanai's presentation at the 2011 Malaysia Open Source Conference about Mozilla and the open web. It discusses Mozilla's mission to promote openness and innovation on the internet, provides facts about Mozilla's organization and user base, and showcases examples of innovative websites and tools built using open web standards. It also addresses browser usage trends in Malaysia and opportunities for growing Mozilla's community presence in the country.

1. The power of the Open
Web in Malaysia
Malaysia Open Source
Conference 2011
Penang

2. Gen Kanai
Community Engagement Team
Hello.
I work on Mozilla’s community engagement team focused on the Asia region.

3. I was last at this conference in 2009.

4. Some
Context

5. Mozilla is…
This is a wordle image of Mozilla’s mission statement.

6. FOX Business (2009)
Firefox: MOST POPULAR SEARCH ENGINE AFTER MICROSOFT & APPLE (wait, what?!?!)

7. FOX Business (2011)
GODZILLA OF SEARCH ENGINES (what, what?! Not again!?!?)

8. Promote
Choice and Innovation
on the Internet
Mission

9. Seriously.

10. That’s it.

12. • Mozilla project started in 1998 within Netscape
• Mozilla Foundation started in 2003
• approximately 350 paid staff in 20 countries
• ~40% of code contributed by volunteers
• Testing community of 60,000+
• More than 400 million users
• Global browser market share 25~30%
Facts

13. the Mozilla world

14. a photo of some of Mozilla’s core contributors in 2010

15. from desktop
to web

16. the web platform is maturing;
more desktop applications are
available via the web

17. aviary.com/html5editor
an online HTML5 image editor

18. scribd.com
converts PDF and Flash documents to HTML

19. slideshare.net
uses WebSockets for chats and webcasting

20. butterapp.org | popcorn.js
One cool example of that is Butter which is a visual interface on top of the Popcorn
JavaScript framework that allows you to build interactive presentations with HTML5
video.

21. mbostock.github.com/d3/
D3.js: Canvas and SVG JS library for charting

22. diagramo.com
an HTML5 editor for flowcharts and diagrams

23. aloha-editor.org
Aloha Editor is a browser-based what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor which can be
embedded into your own website and can allow a developer to edit a website instantaneously
in the browser.

24. helloracer.com/webgl
WebGL - OpenGL for the web. 3D for the web.

25. a beautiful
web

26. the web platform
is innovative

27. nikebetterworld.com
unique interface

28. beautyoftheweb.com
Microsoft’s showcase of cool new sites

29. 20thingsilearned.com
Google’s great example of showcasing a book on the web

30. nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car
3D car showcase: only HTML, CSS, JavaScript

31. webowonder.org
Mozilla’s own showcase of HTML5 and related technologies

32. plugins
come and go

33. • Java applets
• VRML
• Real Player
• Quicktime
• iPix
• Shockwave
• Adobe Air (now unavailable on Linux)
do you remember these?

34. but web standards
remain

35. popular websites from 1998

36. tools for
web dev.

37. appmator.appspot.com
Appmator is a service that takes a web service and packages it up for Google’s web

38. build.phonegap.com
Phonegap is a new service that compiles mobile apps for various platforms in the cloud

39. mediaqueri.es
Media Queries showcases websites that use media queries to provide users variable-sized
websites based on whether they are on a desktop, tablet, or mobile device.

40. caniuse.com
caniuse.com is a very helpful tool for web developers who need to check browser support for
any given html, css, or svg, including both popular desktop browsers as well as leading
smartphone browsers.

41. modernizr.com
Modernizr is a powerful JavaScript library that allows web developers to check which browsers
support which features and provide advanced features to some users and falls back to
simpler features for those users who have older browsers.

42. vid.ly
vid.ly is a powerful web service which converts videos from various formats to all of the
formats that are used in the major browsers. This means vid.ly will serve the right video
format to the right user, be they on different desktop browsers, or tablets or smart phones.

43. information
is free

44. documentation on
web standards
is plentiful

45. html5doctor.com
html5doctor is a great site covering HTML5

46. diveintohtml5.org
Dive Into HTML5 is Mark Pilgrim’s free book on HTML5, available on web. Pilgrim works for
Google and is a long-time web standards advocate.

47. html5boilerplate.com
html5boilerplate gives a web developer a quick way to get started with HTML5

48. developer.mozilla.org
I should not forget to promote our own Mozilla Developer Network, which is one of the
leading sites for information about current web standards. MDN’s JavaScript documentation
is considered some of the best on the web today.

49. still, we must
persevere...

50. ie6countdown.com

51. Mozilla in
Malaysia

52. 2010 2011
Internet Explorer 43% 32%
Firefox 37.4% 32%
Chrome 14% 27%
Safari 3.6% 6.6%
• NetApplications, June 2011
browser share in Malaysia

53. does Malaysia
need a
BM Firefox?

54. community-malaysia list

55. more from
Mozilla

56. mozilla.com/firefox/channel/

57. Firefox Rapid Release
(6 week cycles)

58. pdf.js
(experimental)

59. github.com/andreasgal/pdf.js

60. github.com/andreasgal/pdf.js

61. DNT

62. Instruct your device or application to
accompany all network requests with an
indication that you do not want to be tracked.
Service providers need to react to such
explicit requests.
•First, to all networked devices and
applications
•Second, to all types of tracking and
•Third, to all purposes of tracking.
Do Not Track

63. Neelie Kroes, the Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital
Agenda for Europe. She told the Online Tracking Protection and Browsers Workshop in
Brussels that “we should collectively pay more attention to the emerging ‘do-not-track’
technologies,”

64. Thunderbird 5
with Conversations 2.0

65. Thunderbird Conversations

66. …some
Thoughts

67. Why
non-profit?

71. gen@mozilla | @gen
http://blog.mozilla.com/gen

72. Thanks!
Pascal Finette, Chris Heilmann
Rob Nyman, Thomas Setiawan
Alex Fowler
Mozilla communities worldwide
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