Aza Raskin writes, “Designing at Mozilla is an interesting process: We are committed to doing design in the open and involving community in a fundamental capacity, yet we must avoid design by committee. For the latest round of user experience iterations for Firefox Mobile, Madhava Enros and I are recording our discussion sessions. It’s an experiment, so I have a couple of questions: 1) is this a useful thing to do — do you find value in seeing our unfiltered face-to-face meetings, and 2) in what ways could we make it more valuable to you?” Aza and Madhava have posted two videos so far: Preferences, Add-ons, and Downloads in Fennec, and In-page Find in Fennec. They’re looking for feedback, so if you have anything to add, leave comments on the blog posts.

Vladimir Vukićević has developed a native Canvas implementation for Microsoft Internet Explorer that is based on the same rendering core that’s in Firefox. Microsoft does not support Canvas in IE7, and has stated that it will not be supported in IE8, which continues to be one of the biggest roadblocks towards the widespread adoption of the Canvas technology. Vlad writes, “With an object tag, a bit of CSS, and a single line of script, <canvas> elements in HTML just work [in IE]. I’m excited that this experiment is working out, because lack of Canvas support in IE is one of the reasons people skip Canvas and instead turn to Flash and other plugin technologies.” Binary builds are not currently available, but you can track development in an hg repository. See Vlad’s post for more info, and the MDC Canvas tutorial to learn how to use Canvas.