As mentioned previously on about:mozilla, Mozilla’s Vladimir Vukićević has developed a native Canvas implementation for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Ars Technica has picked up the story, writing, “IE’s shortcomings won’t hold back the Internet for much longer, because Mozilla plans to drag IE into the next generation of open web technologies without Microsoft’s help. One of the first steps towards achieving this goal is a new experimental plugin that adapts Mozilla’s implementation of the HTML5 Canvas element so that it can be used in Internet Explorer.” The article goes on to discuss some of the existing problems with the current plugin and the larger issues related to widespread adoption of new web technologies.

As reported by Tectonic, “South Africa’s award-winning multilingual software developer, Translate.org.za, has been awarded a grant by the Mozilla Corporation to extend its translation tools. Mozilla awarded the grant to Translate.org.za to further its work on Pootle, a web-based translation tool, as well as the Translate Toolkit. The grant also covers a still to be released offline translation tool.” For more details, read the full article at Tectonic, and Seth Bindernagel’s original blog post.