Christmas Arrived and I was VERY good to myself! I bought a new iMac!
We had a wonderful Christmas with Dan’s family. It was so much fun. Dan got me the gift that keeps on giving (a gift card to Best Buy!). I bought him a new TV for watching the news in the kitchen before he goes to work in the morning. And for myself? I bought myself a brand new iMac! I thought the last iMac was near-perfect computing nirvana. Wow, this one has an HD screen that is image-perfect from any angle, has an SD card slot on the side, and did I mention that it’s wicked, wicked fast?
This will be great for my other project recently begun: a software company. A co-worker and I have begun working on an idea I had while in the gym the other day. More details on that to come as we progress. Until then, here’s hopin’!
Firefox 3.5 is Coming Out 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).
We had a wonderful Christmas with Dan’s family. It was so much fun. Dan got me the gift that keeps on giving (a gift card to Best Buy!). I bought him a new TV for watching the news in the kitchen before he goes to work in the morning. And for myself? I bought myself a brand new iMac! I thought the last iMac was near-perfect computing nirvana. Wow, this one has an HD screen that is image-perfect from any angle, has an SD card slot on the side, and did I mention that it’s wicked, wicked fast?
This will be great for my other project recently begun: a software company. A co-worker and I have begun working on an idea I had while in the gym the other day. More details on that to come as we progress. Until then, here’s hopin’!
Firefox 3.5 is Coming Out 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).