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 [...]
Old news: There’s an Adobe and Apple pissing match going on, wherein an Apple spokesperson says this:
“Someone has it backwards–it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary,” said spokeswoman Trudy Muller in a statement.
The snarky part [...]
The open video alliance has put up a wonderful little video up that tries to talk about all of the issues around open video and why it’s important. It’s based on Interviews that were done at the recent Open Video Conference.
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Earlier this week, Automattic, the company behind wordpress.com and WordPress (the software this weblog runs on) announced that they would be supporting Theora along with MPEG-4 as part of their VideoPress platform.
It’s important to realize that wordpress.com is the second top 20 website in the US to add support for Theora. (The other is [...]
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 [...]
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.
[ 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Double beat me to the punch and has an excellent little tutorial about how [...]
A lot of people read blogs on open source projects via their respective planets. For example, I’m on both planet.mozilla.org and planet.gnome.org. You can either read content directly using your browser or you can read the rss feed for the entire planet. In either case the planet software parses and re-exports the feeds in order [...]