Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I thought it might be time for an update on the progress of the <video> element support for Firefox. Unfortunately on Christmas Eve my Macbook hard drive crashed losing everything on it. Fortunately I push my repository to a remote server regularly. Until I get a new drive and the Macbook set up again I'm using another laptop dual booting... more →
I flew to Wellington on the weekend to attend the 2008 Bounty Day celebration. more →
I've made a small change to the git repository containing the Firefox source that I've been maintaining. I've removed the 'configure' file from the git repository. This will need to be regenerated before you can build the source using autoconf2.13. The steps to build Firefox from git become something like: git clone git://double.co.nz/git/firefox.git cd firefox/mozilla ...create .mozconfig file... autoconf2.13 make... more →
There has been a lot of attention lately around the WHATWG <video> specification recommending Theora and Vorbis as baseline codecs. The issue seems to have gained some attention since the position paper Nokia submitted to the W3C Video on the Web workshop which made it clear they didn't want Ogg included. The reference to Theora and Vorbis has since been... more →
I've uploaded new builds of Firefox with experimental support for the WHATWG <video> element. They are (compiled from this git commit): more →