Articles by HAVI HOFFMAN

Testing the Firefox browser on mobile websites: Are you game?

Friends and hackers, we have a challenge Are you a developer who’s passionate about Mozilla’s mission on the open Web? We need your help: We’re looking for someone to build a game to help keep the Web open as it goes mobile. There’s...

MDN Hack Day Tour would like to thank…

By Havi Hoffman

Attention UK hackers: MDN Hack Day London takes place this Saturday May 12, at the newest Mozilla Space, on lovely St. Martin’s Lane. Designers, developers, and friends are all invited to register. Hacky goodness guaranteed. Many Thanks Yous, One Mozilla...

Mozilla MDN Hack Day on Tour, Heading South

By Havi Hoffman

The MDN spring tour continues with a trip into autumn in the Conosur – the southernmost region of South America. We’re heading south to participate in MozCamp, a gathering of the Mozilla Hispano community, and to meet web developers in Buenos Aires,...

Q & A With Michal Biniek: HTML5 Hacker and Frequent Dev Derby Winner

By Havi Hoffman

Editor’s Note: Michal Biniek is a frontend developer on the Innogames Lagoonia team, and an enthusiast of JavaScript and new web technologies like HTML5/CSS3, WebSockets, and WebRTC. Back in November, michal.b took 2nd place in the

Save the Date: MDN Hack Day Comes to NYC on March 24

By Havi Hoffman

A bunch of us Mozilla Developer Network folks — web developers, technical writers, developer evangelists and cat herders like me — will be hosting MDN’s first Hack Day in the great city of New York. Like many teams who work together at Mozilla,...

Interview: Nikhil Suresh on Building His Winning Canvas Demo

By Havi Hoffman

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. We thought it’d be fun to learn a little more about Nikhil...

Congratulations November Dev Derby Winners

By Havi Hoffman

Canvas is a new HTML5 element which creates a digital “drawing board.” A web developer can use one of these drawing boards along with some JavaScript to create simple shapes, graphs, animations, interactive games, and more. Recently, eighteen creative...

Hacking Innovation: At WebFWD, Lean Startup Methodology Meets Open Source

By Havi Hoffman

WebFWD is Mozilla’s accelerator and incubator program for Open Innovation on the Web. It launched at the start of the summer, around the same time I joined Mozilla as a writer and wrangler of content, so I feel a personal stake in helping the program...