June 13, 2013

Mozilla Platform Rendering in Asia

I’ve spent the last 3 weeks traveling in Asia for Mozilla and W3C business. On May 20 to 24, my team was in Taiwan for a series of meetings on Platform Rendering (Layout, Graphics, and Media.) It’s always an enlightening experience for me when I spend time with such a talented group of people: I’ve pasted the calendar we followed for the week, below. The links point to raw notes from the sessions (where available.

November 12, 2012

The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project

Last year, I wrote a blog post regarding Flash that generated a fair bit of discussion. Since then, the Research team at Mozilla has been working on solutions: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/ As the research blog states, “…Shumway is very experimental, is missing features, contains many defects, and is evolving rapidly.” If you’re a technical person who wants to help the current situation with Flash and the Open Web, please help us out.

April 6, 2012

Graphite Smart Fonts in Firefox

The Gecko Layout Engine added Graphite Smart Fonts support starting in Firefox 11. The Mozilla Firefox documentation for Graphite is still under construction but already contains lots of useful information for Web Designers and Developers. The number of people who will benefit from Graphite is the small subset of the population that reads and writes with lesser-known scripts that require complex ligatures and rules for glyph substitution. In other words, we expect this work will appeal to a rather small underrepresented percentage of the web who communicate using uncommon writing systems.