"With video streaming site Dailymotion offering the free Ogg Theora video format, FSF urges other video sites to follow..."
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Patents, Video, and an Open Internet
For a number of reasons, I’m fascinated by the fight over the tag in HTML5 as related by Ryan Paul of Ars Technica – and not just because I like the idea of not having to install a plugin to watch video online.
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Converting OpenOffice documents to PDF or HTML, as a batch
I wrote this article for TechTarget about the fabulous Web Wizard and its uses for mass PDF conversion and quick web publishing of existing documents. It's a great feature that bears re-posting about. It's also really, really not obvious.
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Forget About Photoshop: Five CSS Hacks to Help You Stop Using Images
When you are laying out a new design for a web site, the last thing you generally want to do is create a ton of images for the layout. You might make a rounded corner or shadowed text in Photoshop, but that is wasted time if the client doesn’t like it or the website doesn’t turn out as expected.
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Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate
The HTML 5 video element has the potential to liberate streaming Internet video from plugin prison, but a debate over which codec to define in the standard is threatening to derail the effort.
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Ogg Theora and HTML 5 Support
HTML 5's support of using the Ogg Theora video format in the upcoming tag looked really promising for innovation in the web video area, but not everyone agrees on the new spec.
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Microsoft’s Assault on the Web, Rival Web Browsers, and HTML
Microsoft uses aggressive, dishonest marketing to promote proprietary software that interferes with standards
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HTML 5, Codecs and the Video Tag
Spending the last two days at the Open Video Conference has been a great experience, lots of interesting speakers and I've learned a few things. Perhaps I'll write more in general later, however it's worth mentioning, while still fresh in my mind, today's sessions around royalty-free codecs and the HTML 5 tag.
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Introducing RDF for GNU Licenses
I'm happy to announce that Resource Description Framework (RDF) metadata now accompanies all of the GNU licenses. This provides a great new tool that developers can use to raise awareness about the free software license they use for their work, and that users can use to find the software they're looking for.
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Watch Video…without Flash
"Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to free video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here..."
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Five Questions With Dion Almaer - Co-Creator Of Mozilla Bespin
"Dion Almaer is a name you will find 80,700 results for when searching on Google, so it is clear that people know how Dion Almaer is however, let's kick this interview of with, like the shower scene in a slasher movie, the obligatory first question, who is Dion Almaer? ..." --
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"Mozilla's new Jetpack project makes it easy to enhance the Firefox web browser by using conventional HTML and JavaScript. In this hands-on tutorial, we introduce you to Jetpack and use it to add a Digg counter to the browser's statusbar..."
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Interactive HTML development in Emacs
"I accidentally discovered mozrepl today. It’s clearly designed for JavaScript development, but I thought it might be interesting for HTML development as well, and hacked the following together: ..."
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Mozilla Grant will help Wikipedia Support Video
"The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software.
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"I'm working on designing a microformat that can be used to indicate the location of VCS (git, svn, etc) repositories related to a web page. I'd appreciate some web standards-savvy eyes on my rel-vcs microformat rfc..."
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