Comments on: Firefox 3.5 Preview Shows New Hope For Open Media Standards

By: Nikesh

Nikesh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:04:54 +0000

Yes, Firefox 3.5 is getting the browser war to next level

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:38:21 +0000

ben – I disagree. As pointed out earler, Ajax is actually just a way of using Javascript. As for PHP and HTML (and actually Javascript, too), these are languages that almost every modern website makes use of. Yes, it will be a new version of HTML, but devs are going to have to learn it one way or another. Plus, all of these languages are fairly similar. I haven’t done much with Flash, but I believe that it is fairly different.

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:32:34 +0000

Tyler – Tell that to the thousands of web devs who spend twice as long making their code work in IE as actually writing their code.

By: Television Spy

Television Spy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:37:36 +0000

At this point it seems quite interesting to move towards an open source framework, but I’m wondering whether it’ll really take off as part of the reason why videos went to flash was because of the already high acceptance rate of the plugin. It’s safer at this point to assume a user has flash, than to assume they have the latest version of browser that supports html5.

By: Sinep

Sinep — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:29:43 +0000

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By: zolar

zolar — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:47:46 +0000

I hope that the firefox will help to boost video marketing..

By: AhmadAboBakr

AhmadAboBakr — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:05:36 +0000

some sites have already switch like daily motion
but they did it so the videos only work in ogg format with the video element when using a browser that support it
I had to change the user string from shretoko to firefox to make it work.

chromium for linux support the element but still dose not play the video I think they will fix it soon

can’t wait to see youtube make the same move

and

By: Grayda

Grayda — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:16:36 +0000

This is great to hear, but you can’t kick Flash off the throne when the latest Firefox (a browser that is still yet to de-throne Internet Explorer) is the only one to support this kind of technology natively.

And Manny, if Google come aboard and start giving videos out like that, Chrome and possibly Opera will follow suit, but IE will stick to Silverlight until the bitter end.

Perhaps Firefox needs to market itself like Silverlight does (go to http://www.asp.net/ and watch instant “popover” asking if you want to install Silverlight. Aggressive!

By: MacHarborGuy

MacHarborGuy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:26:25 +0000

the only thing I worry about with OGG is that it still won’t be picked up as a format people will use. sure it is “open source”, but even the DL.TV podcast, a podcast for geeks by geeks, couldn’t get enough viewers downloading the OGG version to justify even putting that version of the show out.

in addition, more devices already support MPEG4 and H.264 encoded videos out of the box, such as the iPod, iPhone, Zune, XBox 360, (PS3?), PSP (to some weirdly encoded degree), some DVD and blueray players, etc.

The view right now is “support the format that can play on the most systems” rather than “support the free and open formats”, and honestly, I cannot blame that logic.

By: jereny

jereny — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:25:31 +0000

Just to be clear – flash video is not really “proprietary”. The Flash player supports “old school” flash ON2 video, but most sites now use … MP4 H264. People often confuse the scripted player engine with the media formats its supports. For example “flash audio” is and always has been MP3, well as AAC in more recent versions.