Category Archives: Web Standards

websockets – shipping before it’s ready?

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

Anne from Opera has posted about their support for WebSockets in Opera 10.70. Unfortunately, they will be shipping -76, which is a version of the protocol that will be replaced. And it’s in the official namespace, which means that if … Continue reading →

Posted in Web Standards, WebSockets | 18 Comments

innovation in browsers

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, Web Standards | 2 Comments

open vs. standard

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Adobe, Apple, Video, Web Standards | 3 Comments

why open video?

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 4 Comments

another top 20 website supports Theora

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Video, Web Standards | 14 Comments

coherency vs. incrementalism

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 | 11 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

bringing accelerated 3D to the web

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

[ 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Web, OpenGL, Web Standards | 51 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

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 →

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