I am right now at the Firefox OS App Day Berlin and just delivered and introductory talk on how Firefox OS can empower HTML5 by being the platform to treat it as a first class citizen. I also commented on the declining hype about HTML5 and issues we are facing with it. A screencast is […]

Yesterday I tweeted about The Procatinator, a web site that loads a random cat gif and music every time you click a button. Most people very just happy to get some damn good internets but one reply to me was sadly predictable: @janl: @codepo8 please don’t link to flash BS. Burn the witch! I dared […]

Today I played again with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas. The result is a tool to pick colours from images and create the corresponding CSS/HTML called Zoom and Pick Here’s me explaining what it does in a screencast: Zoom and Pick to play withThe above screencast on YouTubeZoom and Pick on the Mozilla Demo […]

By request: if you want to comment on this, here is the Google+ post and the one onFacebook. Criticism is a good thing. I am a fan of sensible disagreement and people challenging each other to think different about their work and change their attitudes after seeing a different point of view. Margaret Heffernan’s Dare […]

During the last few weeks we were busy helping developers to convert their HTML5 apps from platforms like WebOS and ChromeOS to FirefoxOS and the target hardware this operation system is right now aiming for. As these are slow mobiles, we found that quite some tweaking had to be done. The reason was in most […]