Light of Firefox (tomoshibi 灯) from Mozilla Japan
Here at Mozilla Japan Firefox 3.5 Headquarters,1 we just launched the new and improved Light of Firefox (in Japanese, tomoshibi (灯)) for Firefox 3.5. The Light of Firefox is a real-time, interactive website which shows sparks on a map of Japan for every manual download of the new Firefox from mozilla.jp.
The name tomoshibi means “torch” in Japanese. As a new Firefox brings new technologies and possibilities to all corners of the web, so too will the tomoshibi light up the night in Japan!
The site was designed and coded by Daisuke Akatsuka of the Keio Kakehi Lab (xlab), the same fine folks who brought you interFORest.
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Tags: Firefox, Flash, fx35, Japan, Mozilla, Mozilla Japan, Mozilla Planet, visualization
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June 30th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Wonderful !
It's just sad that you choose to use flash and not one of the great open technologies provided by Firefox, like Canvas, SVG…
However, it's really cool to see people in the whole world sharing this moment.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:53 am
Yes, well, this was based on the Firefox 3 tomoshibi site, which was pre-canvas… hopefully in the future they'll develop a canvas-based version!