Video Articles
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Firefox OS for developers – the platform HTML5 deserves
Over the next few weeks we will publish a series of short videos here that explain what Firefox OS means for developers and how you can be part of the revolution it brings to the world. In various conversations we’ve repeatedly heard from developers that they view Firefox OS as simply a third player in […]
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Google and MPEG LA Agree, Free VP8
Today Google and the MPEG LA jointly announced a licensing agreement with 11 companies to protect all users of the VP8 video codec. With the agreement in place, developers can make great sites with WebM without fear of legal retribution. As a quick refresher, MPEG LA licenses the patents needed for many common, proprietary video […]
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Firefox Development Highlights – H.264 & MP3 support on Windows, scoped stylesheets + more
Time for the first look this year into the latest developments with Firefox. This is part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). H.264 & MP3 support on Windows Firefox for Android and Firefox OS already support H.264 and […]
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Linklib – lets film lovers and filmmakers send time synced links from videos to phones – a WebFWD project
Have you ever googled films and TV-shows while you watch them? Do you think Youtube’s popup annotations in the middle of a video are distracting? Having shot a documentary about the Pirate Bay for 4 years I wanted to embed links directly into the film to give the audience more nuances in the complex and […]
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Firefox Development Highlights: video.playbackRate and download attribute
Here are the latest features in Firefox for developers, as part of our Bleeding Edge series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). <video>: support for custom playbackRate Setting video.playbackRate changes the “video speed”. 1.0 is regular speed, 2.0 is 2 times faster. From the MDN documentation on […]
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H.264 video in Firefox for Android
Firefox for Android has expanded its HTML5 video capabilities to include H.264 video playback. Web developers have been using Adobe Flash to play H.264 video on Firefox for Android, but Adobe no longer supports Flash for Android. Mozilla needed a new solution, so Firefox now uses Android’s “Stagefright” library to access hardware video decoders. The […]
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Popcorn Maker 1.0 released – how it works
This week Mozilla is in London at the Mozilla Festival 2012. A year ago at last year’s Festival, we released Popcorn.js 1.0, and with it a way for filmmakers, journalists, artists, and bloggers to integrate audio and video into web experiences. Popcorn has since become one of the most popular ways to build time-based media […]
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Hacks Weekly – CSS Flexbox, Designing JavaScript APIs, WebSockets and more
This week Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team think you should read more about , amongst other things!
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Report from San Francisco Gigabit Hack Days with US Ignite
This past weekend, the Internet Archive played host to a crew of futurist hackers for the San Francisco Gigabit Hack Days. The two-day event, organized by Mozilla and the City of San Francisco, was a space for hackers and civic innovators to do some experiments around the potential of community fiber and gigabit networks. Kick-off […]
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FoxIE – a video training series on web standards with Microsoft
About a month ago Chris Heilmann of Mozilla went to Miami, Florida to shoot a series of training videos with Rey Bango of Microsoft. Now these videos are available on Microsoft’s Channel9 as the FoxIE training series. In a very off-the-cuff discussion format between Rey and Chris we covered a few topics: Introducing FoxIE has […]