I’ve recently made the decision to leave Mozilla for various reasons, largely because I’ve been wanting to do something different. Here are some thoughts on this. I became involved in Firefox and the Mozilla community when I was suckeredtalked into fixing a bug — a bug that involved RDF, bookmarks, and the template builder. (Thankfully, [...]

One of the parts of Firefox 4 that I’m excited about is support for WebGL, a standard for accelerated 3D rendering on the web. We’ve been working on this for quite a while, and I’ve been doing experiments with a similar kind of 3D support for a few years now. With the upcoming release of [...]

I’ve been using Windows 7 as my primary development platform for a while (don’t let the MacBook Pro fool you — it’s probably spent less than an hour total in MacOS X), but have always needed to use a virtual machine running Linux to make Android builds.  I don’t mind working in a VM, but [...]

Now that we’re doing hardware acceleration on all platforms, we’re touching all sorts of OS components that we haven’t in the past.  One of those is much closer interaction with the graphics card drivers in your system.  Under Windows Vista and Windows 7, problems in the video driver (or in how we use DirectX/OpenGL) sometimes [...]

Fast JavaScript is a cornerstone of the modern web. In the past, application authors had to wait for browser developers to implement any complex functionality in the browser itself, so that they could access it from script code. Today, many of those functions can move straight into JavaScript itself. This has many advantages for application [...]