{"id":101,"date":"2008-07-31T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-07-31T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:18:42","slug":"please-test-theora-in-firefox-nightlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/07\/31\/please-test-theora-in-firefox-nightlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Please test Theora in Firefox nightlies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theora\">Ogg Theora<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vorbis\">Ogg Vorbis<\/a> support for the HTML5 <tt>&lt;video&gt;<\/tt> element has <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/foundation-l\/2008-July\/045036.html\">landed<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/firefox\/nightly\/latest-trunk\/\">Firefox Minefield nightlies<\/a> (3.1a2-pre). This is <i>big news<\/i> because it means a standard way of displaying video in web browsers will be available to all without being stuck with Flash. And Theora is the only accepted format on <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/foundation-l\/2008-July\/045036.html\">Greg Maxwell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.0xdeadbeef.com\/weblog\/?p=492\">Christopher Blizzard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluishcoder.co.nz\/2008\/07\/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed.html\">Chris Double<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/gerv\/archives\/2008\/07\/firefox_31_will_support_ogg.html\">Gervase Markham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What we need is people to test this. So please download a copy of Minefield, test it thoroughly on <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Video\">Wikimedia Commons video<\/a>, beat on it, thrash it, report bugs. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluishcoder.co.nz\/2008\/07\/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed.html\">plenty<\/a>. You need to load the video, click &#8220;More &#8230;&#8221; and it&#8217;ll give you the option. Wikimedia would very much like to make it a first option rather than a last one, but first it needs to be better (more functional and stable) than loading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cortado_(software)\">Cortado<\/a> with Java.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Nokia tried some truly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/12\/09\/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html\">disgusting FUD<\/a> around the topic and successfully got the words &#8220;Vorbis&#8221; and &#8220;Theora&#8221; taken out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatwg.org\/specs\/web-apps\/current-work\/\">HTML5 spec<\/a>, but Firefox adoption means 20% of Web users in short order. So we can leave them to play catchup per business needs. <i>&#8220;You got a Nokia? No wonder you can&#8217;t watch that Wikipedia video, Nokias suck.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis support for the HTML5 &lt;video&gt; element has landed in Firefox Minefield nightlies (3.1a2-pre). This is big news because it means a standard way of displaying video in web browsers will be available to all without being stuck with Flash. And Theora is the only accepted format on Wikimedia Commons. Posts: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/07\/31\/please-test-theora-in-firefox-nightlies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please test Theora in Firefox nightlies.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-1D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}