Category Archives: Firefox

my thoughts on google’s 3d experiment

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D, Design, Firefox, Google, Mozilla, Open Web, OpenGL, Performance, Standards | 25 Comments

another fantastic open video demo

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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.

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 4 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

fallback options for the video tag

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Some of you might have noticed that I was able to use a fallback in my previous posts that include a native video tag. I was going to do a post on how that works. It’s pretty simple. But Chris … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, howto, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | Leave a comment

screencast #2 of open web video in firefox 3.1

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Beta, Evangelism, Firefox, Mozilla, OGG, Video | 8 Comments

screencast of open web video in firefox 3.1

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

I’ve made a screencast to describe some of the new video capabilities and how they can interact with the rest of the open web technologies we’re building into Firefox 3.1. Although I’ve embedded it below with a video tag (with … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Video, Web Standards | 18 Comments

tobi

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Last week we had a visit at Mozilla from @tobimcfly [website], who has done what I call “protest” add-ons and artwork for Firefox.  His work can be pretty provocative and has been covered in the press.  He’s also behind the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Design, Firefox, Mozilla | 1 Comment

why open video?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

[ Note: Mike Shaver gives the short version of this post.  I have done a great job of burying the lead here. There's a post from the Wikimedia Foundation on the topic and a post in the Mozilla Blog as … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Long Attention Span, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 108 Comments

streaming video in firefox

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Asa Dotzler has been trying to get live streaming working with our new native video support that’s coming with Firefox 3.1.  That is, video that is taken by a camera, encoded and pushed directly out to a web server instead … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Gecko, General, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 21 Comments