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Robert O'Callahan: Blast From The Past
I haven't sung this song for years, but Gen, bless her, brought it back on Sunday. Stuart Townsend nails the important points in a moving and personal way. How deep the Father's love for us,How vast...
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Robert O'Callahan: Web Audio In Firefox
Let me clear up any confusion about what our plans are for audio APIs in Firefox. Some MediaStream support has landed in Firefox 17. We have the ability to create MediaStreams containing the output of...
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Robert O'Callahan: Karekare
Nine days ago we took our research intern out to the west coast. In a change from our usual Waitakere destinations, we went directly to Karekare beach, walked south through the dunes into Whatipu...
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Robert O'Callahan: Motutapu Camping
This weekend was the first weekend of the school holidays so I took the kids camping. We took the 9:15am ferry to Rangitoto Island and got off at Islington Bay right near the bridge to Motutapu Island....
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: First Windows 8 TV Ad - ASUS Dissed?
Microsoft's first Windows 8 television ad includes devices from all of its major OEM partners except ASUS. Featured in the video are devices from Samsung, Sony (two devices,) Acer, Lenovo (two...
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Asa Dotzler: Some Tips for new Surface RT Users
Photo by Leo Newball, Jr., and used under a CC license.I wish the first tip on my list was how to install Firefox on your Surface RT. Unfortunately, Microsoft has denied browser vendors (except...
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Robert O'Callahan: Trouble Ahead For SVG Stacks (Maybe)
We have a large impending problem for CSS and SVG, and the solution may require breaking content using the "SVG Stack" image-bundling technique that's starting to become popular. The problem arises...
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Robert O'Callahan: What To Do When Visiting New Zealand
Every so often people ask me for advice on what to do when they visit New Zealand. This is hard to answer because there are a lot of wonderful opportunities here, and it's impossible to see all the...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Firefox Develops Some New Social Skills
For the last six months or so, we've been doing the heavy lifting to build a new social capability into Firefox. Rather than force this integration, a set of features that might not be interesting to...
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Robert O'Callahan: More Movie Reviews
I recently spent two weeks in North America, which means two trans-Pacific flights and eight movies to watch. None of them were very good, but some were more interesting than usual for various reasons....
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Postbox Team: Postbox 2012 Holiday Sale!
Give Postbox and SAVE during our HOLIDAY SALE!Help your friends, family, or co-workers save time and get more done this holiday season with Postbox! During our Holiday Sale, you can purchase the full...
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Robert O'Callahan: Great Barrier Island
Two weeks ago we had our annual-ish Mozilla office outing. This time we spent two nights at Great Barrier Island, 90km northeast of Auckland. "The Barrier" is more remote than most other islands near...
View ArticleRobert O'Callahan: Optimizing Bugzilla Usage
I spend a lot of time processing bugmail and looking at bugs. Interacting with bugzilla.mozilla.org is pretty slow, but I think it could be greatly improved, potentially saving me 15 minutes a day or...
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Robert O'Callahan: Mount Taranaki
This (long) weekend our family took advantage of the perfect weather to take a road trip to Taranaki with the goal of me and the kids climbing Mt Taranaki. We did it, but it was very tough! My kids are...
View ArticleRobert O'Callahan: SVG In OpenType: A New Approach To SVG Fonts
OpenType is the industry standard font format. This is good. However, OpenType fonts severely limit what can be drawn in a glyph: basically, you can fill simple paths, and that's it. Some use-cases,...
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Asa Dotzler: 2013 Firefox Work Week in Toronto
Last week the desktop Firefox team got together in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to do more planning for 2013, hacking on key initiatives, and team building. We had attendance from Engineering, User...
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Robert O'Callahan: Waiheke Island Sculpture Trail
Yesterday was a public holiday and the weather was brilliant so our family went to Waiheke Island for a walk and to check out the sculpture trail that's currently in place there. We discovered that...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Metro Firefox lands on mozilla-central
On Tuesday, our preliminary Metro Firefox development work arrived at mozilla-central, the source code repository that feeds the Firefox Nightly channel. This means that if you are on the Firefox...
View ArticleRobert O'Callahan: And Then There Were Three
The news about Opera switching to Webkit is disappointing. It's a sad day for the Web, since I thought highly of their Presto engine and their Web standards work. Their impact on Web standards will be...
View ArticleRobert O'Callahan: A Small Example Of The Value Of Browser Engine Diversity
Today there's an email to the www-svg list which illustrates perfectly the value of browser engine diversity. This kind of thing happens all the time. To be clear, browser engine independence pays off...
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