Today, Joe Hewitt’s twitter stream is filled with things like this:
How it should go: browsers innovate differently, users pick the best one, later W3C standardizes what users chose, losing browsers conform.
Joe hasn’t been part of the web for a while, so he might not notice that there’s a lot of that going on right [...]
Two things of note:
1. The update offer of Firefox 3.6 to users of Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 is the first time we’ve ever done an offer to a .0 release to our user base. We’ve always waited until the .1 release or later. We did this because we were able to measure [...]
A new phrase that I learned yesterday. Probably something that’s been around computers for a long time, but it was my first exposure to it.
Basically a “skid mark” is something you leave in code as a signature so that in a crash dump you can figure out how you got there.
We’ve been doing a [...]
Today at the Mozilla all hands I saw two cool things:
1. A decent sized (600×400 or so) Theora video playing on a Nokia N900, decoding on the DSP with the main CPU kept at around 50%. (Pulseaudio is about 10-15% of that, and the rest of Vorbis decoding and some work to get the [...]
This really wonderful post by Anil Dash echos a lot of what I’ve been talking about in the context of the larger web. I had a discussion with Ben Galbraith recently about this topic during a Mozilla lunch. He and I took (intentionally) different positions on topics to see what kind of discussion [...]
Chris Jones has put together a demo video of a super-early stage Gecko-driven browser that’s multi-process. It’s super-duper early and realizing that we’re only in Phase I of the roadmap is important but it’s great to see such speedy progress. Release early, release often!
Sadfaces. Your browser doesn’t support the <video> tag with open [...]
Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5. They are automatically [...]
Google has announced the availability of a plugin that implements 3D technology and makes it available over the web. You can read about the announcement in in the Google Code Blog and in an excellent article by Ryan Paul in Ars Technica.
Ryan points out that there are significant differences between what Google has built [...]
This is essentially a re-post of what both Tristan and Paul wrote up, but I thought it was worth re-posting because it’s that good.
If you have Firefox 3.1b3 you can try the demo here.