1. New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox

    • by Chris Heilmann • Firefox, HTML5, Video • 8 comments

    As explained in this blog post by Jared Wein of the Firefox team there are quite a few new features in Firefox when it comes to playing HTML5 video. As an Aurora user, I am most excited about the option to go full-screen, the ability Read more…

  2. Congrats to our July Dev Derby winners on their amazing HTML5 video demos!

    • by Jay Patel • Challenge, Demo Studio, Dev Derby, Featured Article, MDN, Video, Web Developers • No comments yet

    We shifted gears for July and invited Web developers to have some fun with HTML5 video for Dev Derby. We had 15 awesome demos submitted and while there was a lot of entertainment and innovation happening, we had to narrow them down to 5 finalists: Read more…

  3. HTML5 APIs – Where No Man Has Gone Before! – Presentation at Gotham JS

    • by Robert Nyman • Canvas, FileAPI, HTML5, Video, Web Developers, WebGL, WebSocket • No comments yet

    Last weekend I was in New York City to speak at the GothamJS conference and Mozilla also sponsored it. It was a nice event with about 200 attendees, taking place in the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. The event was one-track with 8 speakers, and personally Read more…

  4. Lights, Camera, Action! July Dev Derby is all about HTML5 Video!

    • by Chris Heilmann • Dev Derby, Feature, Featured Article, HTML5, Video • 2 comments

    Show off your coolest video hack in July’s Mozilla Dev Derby! Moving pictures have always fascinated people. From the first zoetropes to the multi million dollar blockbusters of today – seeing things move grabs our attention as humans much better than any clever copy or Read more…

  5. Webinar: Deconstructing HTML5 video (The Spirit of Indiana Jones, Redux)

    • by Janet Swisher and Chris Heilmann • HTML5, Video, Webinars • 1 comment

    Update 2011-07-20: The video recording of this webinar is now available: On Thursday, July 14th, at 16:00 UTC, Chris Heilmann will give second in the (so far sporadic) Mozilla Developer Engagement webinar series, discussing syncing HTML5 video with Google maps, using his “Spirit of Indiana Read more…

  6. Syncing page content with HTML5 video (a different kind of webinar)

    • by Janet Swisher and Chris Heilmann • HTML5, JavaScript, Video, Webinars • 8 comments

    If you’ve been around the software industry for a little while, you’ve probably attended at least a few “webinars”, where someone does an online presentation, which you can watch and listen to in real time. You might be able to ask questions via a chat Read more…

  7. Time to build a better web – a talk at Heart and Sole

    • by Chris Heilmann • Conferences, HTML5, Video • 1 comment

    A few weeks ago Portsmouth in England hosted the first Heart and Sole conference. This new conference had quite some appeal to me because of its nature: it was organised by local people who want to boost the web development market, it had rather unknown Read more…

  8. Simple HTML5 video encoding with vid.ly – interview, first impressions and invite code

    • by Chris Heilmann • Video • 5 comments

    Today encoding.com released a new service called vid.ly which is not yet another URL shortener, but actually a very impressive service for converting video. One of the biggest annoyance of using HTML5 video is to convert your movie to various formats supported by different browsers. Read more…

  9. Zooming and rotating for video in HTML5 and CSS3

    • by Chris Heilmann • CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, Video • 5 comments

    The source of the code examples in this post is available on GitHub and you can see the demo in action. There are dozens of video players that allow you to do all the normal things with videos: play, pause, jump to a certain time Read more…

  10. Talking about HTML5 games development at MIT in Boston

    • by Chris Heilmann • Audio, Challenge, HTML5, Video • 4 comments

    As part of our university outreach programme, a few Mozilla people and volunteers went to Boston last week to give a series of lectures on web technologies for games development. During the week we covered topics like WebGL for 3D development, basics of JavaScript, debugging Read more…