[LINK] Firefox developer in Canberra, 4 April 2008

[Tom Worthington]

Robert O'Callahan (Mozilla.org) will be talking at ANU in Canberra, 4 
August 2007 about the development of the Firefox:

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DCS SEMINAR SERIES

FOXHOLES: News From The Front Line Of The Browser Wars

Robert O'Callahan (Mozilla.org)

DATE: 2008-04-04
TIME: 14:00:00 - 15:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101

ABSTRACT:
Web browsers have become a primary application platform, arguably 
more important than traditional client operating systems. They are 
also a key security frontier, a vigorously competitive market, and an 
crucial front in the battle for free software and open standards. For 
these and other reasons, browser development is both extremely 
challenging and extremely important.

As a core Firefox developer, I will discuss challenges facing our 
project: competition from Internet Explorer and other browsers; 
changes to fundamental assumptions about code-level security 
vulnerabilities; sustaining and evolving a complex and fragile 
codebase; and the successes and failures of our tools and processes.

Looking forward, I will discuss our efforts to keep the Web vital, in 
concert with like-minded browser vendors and standards organizations, 
by enhancing the Web platform with vector and 3D graphics, offline 
Web applications, accessibility, richer typography and layout, 
enhancements to the Javascript language, efforts to improve 
cross-browser compatibility, and more. I will talk about why everyone 
should care and what people can do to help.

BIO:
Robert O'Callahan obtained a PhD in programming languages and 
software engineering tools from CMU. After a few years at IBM 
Research working on dynamic program analysis, he returned to New 
Zealand to work on Mozilla full-time. Now he manages a team of Gecko 
developers in Auckland (and constantly looks for more hard-core 
hackers to hire) while still trying to write lots of code and do 
research on the side.
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