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Category Archives: Standards
disabling websockets for firefox 4
We’ve decided to disable support for WebSockets in Firefox 4, starting with beta 8 due to a protocol-level security issue. Beta 7 included support for the -76 version of the protocol, the same version that’s included with Chrome and Safari. … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, Standards, WebSockets
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intellectual honesty and html5
OK, this is the post that contains everything that everyone on the inside of the browser market knows, but doesn’t say out loud. It’s time for someone to expose the emperor. It’s a shame that the main victim here turns … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Google, Standards
213 Comments
reminder: lessig chat tomorrow (thursday, feb 25th) at 6pm eastern / 3pm pacific
The Open Video Alliance will be hosting an online chat with Lawrence Lessig tomorrow at 6pm eastern time / 3pm pacific time (see more time zones here.) There are a lot of events in person as well. I will be … Continue reading
some additional information about theora and patents
There was a recent post on LWN suggesting that three specific Nokia patents may cover Theora. A deeper analysis indicates that’s just not true. Two of the patents 6,950,469 and 7,263,125, are post-VP3 and therefore not relevant because the patent … Continue reading
HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web
For background on the free software angle on this story please check out Robert O’Callahan’s post on this topic. Also check out Mike Shaver’s shorter background post as well. This post differs from theirs in that I want to talk … Continue reading
Posted in Long Attention Span, Standards, Video
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coherency vs. incrementalism
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism, Firefox, Open Web, Standards, Web Standards
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royalty free codecs at the IETF
There’s a press release / post up about a BoF that’s going to happen tomorrow, July 30th, at the IETF meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. The Xiph folks, along with some people from Skype, are proposing that the IETF form a … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Freedom, Standards
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my thoughts on google’s 3d experiment
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
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