Innovating with Mozilla Labs
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This document summarizes Mozilla Labs and some of its projects. It discusses how the Weave project started as a Firefox extension to allow users to access browser data from multiple devices. It then lists several other Mozilla Labs projects like Prism, Personas, and Test Pilot. The document encourages people to get involved by contributing code, concepts, user interfaces, documentation or asking questions. It provides information on how to contribute to various open source projects at Mozilla Labs.
Innovating with Mozilla Labs
- 1. Innovating with Mozilla Labs The Weave Story Anant Narayanan 29 November 2008 anant@mozilla.com
- 2. Problems The Web Life is full of them!
- 3. But
- 4. Let’s take One •You looked up a restaurant and made reservations for dinner tonight •You get in your Car, only to realize that you forgot to note down the address •You do have your smartphone with you
- 6. From Idea to Code •Firefox extension •Written mostly in Javascript • Some C++ portions for cryptography •Store browser data on “the cloud” • Mechanism changed for next release (0.3) •Built as a platform to provide generic synchronization functionality
- 7. It’s What We Do Facilitate the Community Inspire and Incubate Ideas Provide Resources to Implement them
- 9. How can you help? Shade Seed Fruit Branches
- 10. Code is not the only way! •Concept series is especially targeted towards designers •Test Pilot (will) target regular users •Every project needs UI and Documentation :-)
- 11. But if you insist... •Most projects use mercurial for version control •We’re experimenting with different issue tracking systems •All development life-cycles are independent from Firefox and hence projects are typically extensions • Which translates to Javascript a little C++ most of the time
- 13. •Meant to inspire future design directions for the browser of the future •A concept can be: • An idea • A mockup • A prototype •Tag as mozconcept
- 14. •Your data follows you •Add a new data type? Write a new client?
- 15. •Command line interface to your browser •Make common tasks on the web quicker and easier to perform •“Empower, Enable, Extend”
- 17. Come, Play!