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This is the fourth installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. This time, We’re interviewingTantek Celik, a long-time Web standards contributor. He started working on web standards at Microsoft in 1998, while leading the development of Tasman, the IE Mac rendering engine, and subsequently founded independent efforts like microformats.org, BarCamp, and most recently, IndieWebCamp.org.

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In this post I round-up my first time at FOSDEM and the two talks I gave during my time there; one on open Web apps and the other on creating games with HTML5.

This past weekend I have been in Brussels at FOSDEM, and absolutely massive free event for the open source software community. I hear there were over 5,000 people there this weekend, that’s a lot of people.

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Aurora 12 is out, together with updated Developer Tools, and these are the improvements/changes.

Highlights

A few of the improvements that stand out a little more:

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Firefox 11 contains the first Firefox implementation of the SPDY protocol. SPDY is a secure web transport protocol that encapsulates HTTP/1 while replacing its aging connection management strategies. This results in more responsive page loads today and enables better scalability with the real time web of tomorrow.

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Today the BSI, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, released a best practice guide for Windows users as part of their overall guidelines and recommendations for Cyber Security. Security has always been a core focus of Chrome, so we’re particularly honored to see several of its security benefits recognized in the report:
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Europeans are procrastinators — at least that is what web browser company Opera Software’s latest research into users’ mobile browsing habits shows. This past holiday season, U.S. mobile phone users shopped early, while Europeans used their phones for last-minute purchases. Read more

CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with CSS3 Transitions and Animations. CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (literally) for developers to enhance their sites. Read more

After a little break, Mozilla Hacks Weekly is now back! More reading tips from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team. We also have a new format for our content, so please let us know if you have any thoughts on that!

At the end of this blog post, you also have all the Developer Engagement team members and what they work on, if you are interested in discussing more, contributing or taking part of our work.

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Hello everyone!

My name is Kristine and I'm an all year round intern in Desktop QA. It’s been 938 days since my last blog post and it's good to be back ;)

We are preparing another maintenance release for 11.6x ‘Tunny’ with some stability fixes. This is a normal Opera release, not Opera Next. Read more

Here are some of the changes to the Mozilla Developer Network site in the week and a half since the recent doc sprint.

Infrastructure woes

We had a snafu for a few days last week when a server crashed in the middle of a move of the DOM reference hierarchy, causing many DOM reference pages to apparently disappear. That situation has now been fixed.

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Ook! I'm Dustin Wilson, and I'm a user experience designer for desktop here at Opera. You've probably seen my lurking around here before. I've been with the My Opera community since 2003, and I've been quite a vocal supporter of Opera. I just started working here on the 11th of January, and shortly thereafter I flew out to Oslo to meet and work with everyone. It's been extremely cold and dark, but great. I'm working with a great team, and we have a lot of awesome stuff planned. Fortunately for you all there are some nice design changes coming up! Read more

HTML5 Canvas is a very cool feature. Seemingly just an opportunity to paint inside the browser with a very low-level API you can use it to heavily convert and change image and video content in the document. Today, let’s take a quick look at how you can use Canvas and the FileReader API to create thumbnails from images dropped into a browser document.

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Idea Cellular, India’s third-largest mobile operator and Opera Software have recently signed a deal to offer a customized Opera Mini mobile web browser to its subscribers across India. Idea customers will be able to download this co-branded version of Opera Mini on their devices from the end of March 2012. Read more

Editor’s Note: Back in November, Nikhil Suresh (@nklsrh2) from Sydney, Australia, won the MDN Developer Derby with his distinctive, non-violent 2-person shooter game Bouncy and the Apple. Read more