firefox 3.5 open video?

[Tom Horsley]

So, I just got the firefox 3.5 final and it popped up
the whatsnew page touting the virtues of the new
openvideo.

Is the demo video it wants you to play a video
of a still image of a play button icon? 'Cause
that's all it would play for me :-).

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:05:15 +0930
Tim wrote:

>  There's an *awful* lot of pages that use it for navigation
>  and other flashy things that doesn't have anything to do with watching a
>  movie. 
Yea, the most annoying one being the "ShopSafe" app I can use to
generate temporary credit cards. It is wonderful for online shopping,
but I sure wish they'd support a more mundane web form so I don't
need flash (it didn't work on linux for several years, but I noticed
that the latest flash for linux has it working again).

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:34:10 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>  > Is the demo video it wants you to play a video
>  > of a still image of a play button icon? 'Cause
>  > that's all it would play for me :-).  
>  
>  On my wife's iMac it shows a video. On F11 it doesn't seem to work. (I
>  have NoScript but turned it off for this case). 
Actually, it did finally work for me (though I'm sorry now since
it is just a bunch of people yelling at me :-), I didn't change
anything so I guess it was overloaded servers or something...

[Tim]

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 10:56 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>  The good news is that once/if Google switches Youtube from a Flash
>  player to using the <VIDEO> tag (if supported by the browser) then
>  Flash will become (almost) irrelevant. 
Only as far as viewing videos, which is just one thing that Flash is
used for.  There's an *awful* lot of pages that use it for navigation
and other flashy things that doesn't have anything to do with watching a
movie.

And you'll still be stuck by all the sites that want to have control
over what you can do with their content (just about all of them with
content), that'll make life hard no matter what technology is used.

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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 07:26 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  So, I just got the firefox 3.5 final and it popped up
>  the whatsnew page touting the virtues of the new
>  openvideo.
>  
>  Is the demo video it wants you to play a video
>  of a still image of a play button icon? 'Cause
>  that's all it would play for me :-). 
On my wife's iMac it shows a video. On F11 it doesn't seem to work. (I
have NoScript but turned it off for this case).

poc

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Tom Horsley<tom.horsley(a)att.net> wrote:
>  So, I just got the firefox 3.5 final and it popped up
>  the whatsnew page touting the virtues of the new
>  openvideo.
>
>  Is the demo video it wants you to play a video
>  of a still image of a play button icon? 'Cause
>  that's all it would play for me :-). 
Firefox 3.5 supports the new HTML5 <VIDEO> tag.

For it to work you need to load web pages which use it..

The good news is that once/if Google switches Youtube from a Flash
player to using the <VIDEO> tag (if supported by the browser) then
Flash will become (almost) irrelevant.

FC

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 02 July 2009, Tom Horsley wrote:
> So, I just got the firefox 3.5 final and it popped up
> the whatsnew page touting the virtues of the new
> openvideo.
>
> Is the demo video it wants you to play a video
> of a still image of a play button icon? 'Cause
> that's all it would play for me :-). 
That part worked, but no sound, followed by an FF crash. Several times.
CNN, u-tube et all works just fine.

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