[ 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 the web. This is a pretty big deal for us and for the web, and is [...]
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 The Big Takeover in Rolling Stone. What I love about this is the [...]
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 flight.
I’ve had the chance to interact with a few of the people at the company through [...]
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, this will be the place to be. Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Ryanishungry.com recently [...]
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. Once again, with video as a first class citizen on the web, what [...]
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 in 9 months is a pretty blistering pace. For a long time we [...]
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 directive:
AddType application/ogg .ogg
AddType application/ogg .ogx
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType audio/ogg .oga
Most web servers are likely to return [...]
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.