Monthly Archives: March 2009

bringing accelerated 3D to the web

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

[ See Vlad's post on this topic, Arun's post in the Mozilla standards blog and the official Mozilla blog post. ] Today Mozilla and the Khronos group announced that Mozilla will be leading an initiative to bring accelerated 3D to … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Web, OpenGL, Web Standards | 51 Comments

two good stories about the banks

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

I’m going to point out two good stories about the banks today. I thought they were both very informative. But mostly I thought they were worth posting because they were incredibly different in their style and approach. The first is … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Storytelling | 1 Comment

zomg a flying car

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Yes!  A flying car! OK, it’s not exactly a car as much as it is a roadable aircraft, but it’s awesome to see people at least experimenting in this area.  Congratulations to the Terrafugia folks on a successful first test … Continue reading →

Posted in Flying | 11 Comments

the open video conference – june 19-20 in NYC

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

On June 19th and 20th, there will be a conference in New York City on open video.  If you’re interested in the problems around open video and want to talk with other people, many of whom are working on solutions, … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Events, Freedom, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 3 Comments

open web video screencast #3 – creating your own player

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Chris Double posted about this but I thought it might be worth it to put together a simple video screencast of what this actually looked like in practice. It’s a damn neat idea and opens up all kinds of possibilities. … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 17 Comments

watching the firefox 3.1 beta 3 release on social media networks

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

At Mozilla we do a lot of releases. Every few weeks, we’ll do a minor release to fix security issues and improve the reliability of the browser. On the 3.0 branch, for example, we’re up to Firefox 3.0.7.  7 releases … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Firefox, identi.ca, Mozilla, Twitter | 3 Comments

quick tip: open web video and mime types

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

A quick note if you’re going to be using OGG open web video hosted on web servers.  There’s an important configuration change that you should make so that Firefox recognizes it as video.  In my Apache configuration I’ve added this … Continue reading →

Posted in howto, OGG, Open Web, Video | 10 Comments

yeah, this is worth a post

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Thanks to Sarah and iPhoto ’09 for this one.  I’m told that you can still buy these shirts at Xiph’s t-shirt store. Pretty awesome.

Posted in Humor | 7 Comments