Webdev:Innovation

Goals

• To showcase new features in Firefox
• To use Open Web technologies in Mozilla websites
• Showcase Mozilla webdev and keep it fun

Ideas

Users

• hacks.mozilla.org: showcase monkeying and new features.
• Better demos of features
• Better firstrun page

Developers

• Beta splash: cool stuff you can use in this beta
• Open Web Initiative - Paul Rouget's demos
• MDC?
• Hack Day for webdevs
• Tracemonkey

Existing sites

What features can we incorporate?

• video
• Geo
  • we should incorporate this into SFX ASAP
  • weather widget
  • Mozilla Service Week
• CSS3
  • Aria

For features that the current browser does not support, consider graceful fallback to a screencast.

Resources

• All the new features in 3.5
• Firefox 3.5 for Developers

Implementation plan

• Assign each webdev something at beginning of quarter - each person to build something and blog about it sometime in the quarter