Firfox 3.5 Support HTML Video Tags!
27/06/09 11:36 Filed in: Technology
Okay, I’m totally geeking out here, but this is BIG. No more need for Flash Plugins, or Silverlight, or even my beloved Quicktime. The W3C consortium that establishes standards for the web has adopted the Ogg video standard to create an HTML “video” tag in web pages so that they are embedded like a picture or text.
Firefox 3.5 is Coming Out June 30th with VIDEO EMBED Tags!
Okay, I’m totally geeking out here, but this is BIG. No more need for Flash Plugins, or Silverlight, or even my beloved Quicktime. The W3C consortium that establishes standards for the web has adopted the Ogg video standard to create an HTML “video” tag in web pages so that they are embedded like a picture or text. This will not only make building web pages easier, but enable videos to have the ability to interact with elements on the page itself. Web developers ought to be wetting their pants over this one. Firefox leads the way on this one. I suspect Safari and Chrome will soon follow. As for Microsoft and I.E. Who the hell knows. That’s a company who’s lost whatever they once had. They keep trying to recycle their old crap or copy Apple, Google, and Mozilla.
Check out the video below to see all the new features -- including the VIDEO TAG support (about 1:20 into the video).
Okay, I’m totally geeking out here, but this is BIG. No more need for Flash Plugins, or Silverlight, or even my beloved Quicktime. The W3C consortium that establishes standards for the web has adopted the Ogg video standard to create an HTML “video” tag in web pages so that they are embedded like a picture or text. This will not only make building web pages easier, but enable videos to have the ability to interact with elements on the page itself. Web developers ought to be wetting their pants over this one. Firefox leads the way on this one. I suspect Safari and Chrome will soon follow. As for Microsoft and I.E. Who the hell knows. That’s a company who’s lost whatever they once had. They keep trying to recycle their old crap or copy Apple, Google, and Mozilla.
Check out the video below to see all the new features -- including the VIDEO TAG support (about 1:20 into the video).