screencast #2 of open web video in firefox 3.1

February 24, 2009 in Beta, Evangelism, Firefox, Mozilla, OGG, Video | 8 comments

In my last post I put up a pretty long video that contained a couple of really neat demos. Yesterday Paul made another demo, one that’s short and sweet and is self-explanatory. Pretty neat what you can do in a small amount of JS, Canvas and Open Video. (Once again it’s available in OGG Theora, Quicktime H.264 and on Vimeo.

  1. mie’s avatar

    mie on February 24, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    That’s awesome.

    Does FF get a webcam input?
    So many apps I could think of :)

  2. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on February 24, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    Not yet, but I would love to have it.

  3. Duncan Lock’s avatar

    Duncan Lock on February 24, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    That’s really impressive! This open, plugin-free web stack is _such_ a tantalising prospect; HTML5 web applications are going to be extremely powerful. It’s a huge shame the Microsoft will likely not support canvas for years, if ever, for fear of cannibalising Silverlight; very frustrating to have such power available but be unable to deploy it on public facing websites.

  5. Hans’s avatar

    Hans on April 17, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Wow, too bad that didn’t run anywhere as smooth on my computer. Actually stopped after a few frames.

  6. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on April 17, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    That might be a bug in recent nightlies. Try pause and then play again?

  7. Hans’s avatar

    Hans on April 19, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    I run the daily builds of Shiretoko (through a Launchpad PPA), and it does not work, now after update it doesn’t even show the first 4-5 frames anymore.