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A few weeks back, I wrote about the troubling prospect of DRM being baked into HTML5. At the centre of a related piece was a post by Brend...

Last week I explored at some length the curious reasons that Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave for supporting the proposal to add hooks for DRM in...

Mozilla and its central Firefox project are themes that I have returned to often on this blog. That's not so surprising: Mozilla is ...

Even if you don't remember the birth of Mozilla  15 years ago , you are certainly benefitting from its consequences. For, back then, ...

I've written a number of posts about Mozilla's rise and fall and rise: how it went from saving the open Web and open standards in...

Mike wrote how both Vint Cerf and Sir Tim Berners-Lee were concerned about the outcome of the WCIT talks currently taking place in Dubai...

Mozilla is now something of a venerable institution in the open source world - the first release of browser code by Netscape took place ...

When we talk of free software, we typically think of things like GNU /Linux, Apache or Firefox. But one aspect that often gets overlooked...

One of the most important messages in the history of free software – and computing – was posted 21 years ago, on 25 August 1991: On The ...

Like many people, I've been tracking the steady ascent of Google Chrome - and corresponding decline of Microsoft's Internet Expl...

In my last column , I suggested that one of the best things that Mozilla could do in order to promote the Open Web and openness in genera...

There has been a flurry of excitement about Mozilla recently. Not, as you might hope, about the latest version of Firefox; one of the uni...

A couple of weeks ago I posted the first part of an interview with Brendan Eich, who is Mozilla's CTO. That covered the early years ...

Last year, there was a lot of handwringing about Firefox's continuing loss of market share. This was only by relatively small amounts, b...

HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it wou...

Earlier this week, I reported on my travails with Firefox, and how I teetered on the brink of switching to Google's Chromium. Actually, ...

I remember well the moment when the beta version of Netscape Navigator 0.9 was released in October 1994. It was so clearly superior to the m...

Back in August last year, I wrote the following: we no longer live in a simple binary world of Internet Explorer as the dominant player and ...

Everyone knows that there are lies, damned lies and Web analytics, but the latter can at least give a feel for what's going on. And the ...

I always look forward to reading Microsoft-funded research, because over the years it's evolved into a kind of game. The results - of co...