The Labs team is constantly on the look-out for better ways to do things, better tools, and better infrastructure. One thing we realized is that the forum system we were using for project discussions wasn’t working as well as it … Continue reading
Just over three months ago we launched our first Mozilla Labs Design Challenge. We invited design-focused students from around the world to participate and develop solutions to the question “What would a browser look like if the Web was all … Continue reading
Eighteen months ago, we introduced an experimental project called Prism with the goal to “to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop … Continue reading
The current state of identity on the Web is not so great. Much of the ongoing discussion and efforts around user identity on the Web focuses on tying identities to new or existing networks and using various protocols for federating … Continue reading
Four weeks ago, the Personas Team — with your support — released version 1.0 of the Personas experiment with a friendlier look and feel, improved functionality, and an expanded gallery of designs. Since the launch, Personas has been downloaded over … Continue reading
As Web applications become more powerful and useful, the need has arisen for them to be able to store structured information in the user’s browser. This is the problem that the W3C’s Web Storage specification has set out to solve. … Continue reading
Above you will see Kevin Dangoor showing of the fruits of his labor on VCS integration with Bespin. His screencast shows how you can fire up Bespin, tie into your VCS, and start coding. This is an exciting step for … Continue reading
All has been quiet on the new tab front for the last couple of weeks. We’ve been up to two things in the process of getting the new tab ready for potential uplift into Firefox. The first is we’ve been … Continue reading
As a user experience exploration, Ubiquity has been incredibly successful. Over a million downloads have highlighted the need for the web to be connected more tightly with by the power of task-based interfaces. Due to the passion of users, the … Continue reading
Joe Walker and Kevin Dangoor of the Developer Tools Lab joined Ben and myself for a busy few days to go heads down on working out some good direction for Bespin and our group in general. We are pretty excited … Continue reading
