Kaz'hackTo content |To menu |To searchSunday, December  2 2012    Still thereBy Kazé    on Sunday, December  2 2012, 21:21        firefoxOSl10nmozillavimWow, the last year just flew by! Time for a quick status update.First of all, I’m not working on the editor back-end any more. I joined the Firefox OS dev team last January and I mostly work on the Gaia front-end. It’s been heart-breaking to stop working on the editor, which is the reason why I started contributing to Mozilla in 2006… but I have to confess I feel much more useful in the Gaia team, and I’m proud to be part of such an amazing project!Sad corollary: like you would expect for such projects, the work pace is very high and I haven’t been able to work significantly on any other FLOSS project. The first official Firefox OS release is scheduled for  mid-January 2013, so don’t expect any update on Kompozer or timesheets.js until the end of the winter. :-/Among the cool things we do with Firefox OS, I’m the proud developer of webL10n, a client-side i18n/localization JS library. This library is used by all Gaia apps and by other cool projects like PDF.js or Etherpad Lite. We’re ironing webL10n at the moment and we’re trying to optimize its performances, so expect a first public release soon. :-)Last, I’m organizing monthly French-speaking Vim meet-ups in the Paris office.  It was supposed to be an experiment but it’s been working out surprisingly well since March! If you use Vim, speak French and are in Paris next Thursday, ping me. :-)5 commentsSaturday, September 17 2011    DocEng2011By Kazé    on Saturday, September 17 2011, 00:29        html5smiltimesheetsNext week I’ll be in Mountain View for DocEng2011 — a symposium on Document Engineering, which is hosted by Google this year.I’ll present my work on timesheets.js (= JavaScript implementation of SMIL Timing and SMIL Timesheets), which has been nominated for the best paper award. Wish me luck!5 commentsWednesday, August 17 2011    A Bad SurpriseBy Kazé    on Wednesday, August 17 2011, 12:05        mozillaThat’s not a secret, not everybody is happy with Mozilla’s new “6-week release” policy. Everything has already been written about that: the advantages of a rapid release cycle are real, and so are the drawbacks of the lack of a long-term-support version. The Firefox project is in a sensitive phase.Yesterday, Cédric, a very long time l10n contributor and key person of the French localization, gave us a bad surprise by announcing that he’s suspending his contribution to Firefox.The recent change about the release cycle has overturned the community habits and the irresponsible statements of some Mozilla representatives as well as the decision not to support a Firefox LTS release, for companies or end-users, are the root of the new nature of my contribution to the project.At least Cédric isn’t dropping the FrenchMozilla community:For my part, I won’t desert totally the project, because I truly agree the Mozilla Manifesto and I think the Mozi