Index of / The Myth Of "Full Hardware Acceleration" A browser that "fully hardware-accelerates the entire Web platform" shouldn't have any trouble with a simple HTML scrolling testcase, should it? Try this testcase in the browsers on your machine. Running fullscreen on my laptop, IE9 RC1 takes more than ten times as long as Firefox 4. That doesn't seem very accelerated to me. View the source to see that the testcase does nothing tricky. When we designed our "layers" framework for GPU acceleration in Firefox, one of the goals was to accelerate scrolling, especially on pages where some parts of the page move as you scroll and other parts don't --- like that testcase.
I can't say for sure what IE9 is doing in this case, but experimentation suggests that it simply repaints the entire page from scratch every time it scrolls the above testcase. I'm not here to bash IE9, just its marketing. Need your vote: open web art award. January 23, 2011 § In a little over 10 days, I will be giving out the first Mozilla Open Web Art Award at the Transmediale Festival in Berlin. Voting for the winner is currently happening on the Mozilla Drumbeat website. Voting ends February 4. Last year, Mozilla Drumbeat and the Transmediale Festival announced this new award as a way to stimulate art and creativity using open web technology. Thimbl: Decentralized Micro Blogging Thimbl is a free, open source, distributed micro-blogging platform. Booki: Open Web Publishing More than just a free software Booki helps you make free books – beautiful real paper books and ebooks.
Graffiti Markup Language: Graffiti Analysis Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) is a universal, XML-based, open file format designed to store graffiti motion data. How the voting works First, explore the projects. Please note: Voting requires you’re a registered user. Like this: Like Loading... Marco Casteleijn (upnorth)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jul-10 09:46:01 UTC - Mozilla status updates. Mozilla.org - Home of the Mozilla Project. Null Morpheme. Crazy UI Idea: Our Phones Should Speak In Vibrated Text | Co.Design. I keep my phone in my pocket. This has the (un)fortunate side effect of putting the entire Internet in my pants. When I get a call, I have to do a little dance to slip the phone out of my pocket and in to my hand. I'm one of those people who thinks its rude to answer the phone in the middle of a conversation. It's worse when it's during dinner.
It's even borderline rude to just check the phone to see whose calling before slipping it away. I want to know who's calling before I go pocket-diving. Having my phone read out the caller's name isn't a tenable solution: I don't want to broadcast that information to everyone near me. Why not have the vibrator buzz out the phonemes of the caller's name? I generally keep my phone on vibrate; it's less intrusive that way. The name Alexis would be "br bR brrr. " Playing around with a toy implementation, the mapping seems to be fairly natural.
Most of us get calls regularly from less than 10 people. Just a thought. [Top image by Mo Riza] Upnorth and friends - Mozilla status updates. Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more: 10 years @ Mozilla. Finding ... ReMo - William's blog. For the past couple of weeks, on various community calls and IRC chats, I've been talking about a new project I've embarked on called "ReMo" (/rɪ'mo̞). The project is so large in scope, is tied to so many areas of the Mozilla project and requires so much input from the community that this is the first of a long series of blog posts that I'll be writing in the next weeks with my new partner in crime on the project, Pierros Papadeas (whom I'll introduce in a seperare blog post).
These ReMo blog posts will aim to explain just what ReMo is and aim to gather as much feedback as we can. Some background... Since I joined Mozilla as a community manager in the summer of 2008, one of the central themes working with Mozillians is the power of community and how to leverage it as best we can to push the Mozilla project forward. Yes, I sound like a broken but I cannot stress how important this is: community is the backbone of the Mozilla project. Introducing ReMo toolsassistancesupport resources. Air Mozilla.