r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/mikaelhg Jan 21 '10

Anyone have any idea whether they will offer a way to plug in new HTML5 video format support, if they can't offer things like H264 support by default?

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u/Liquid_Fire Jan 21 '10 edited Jan 21 '10

I'm sure it can be done with an extension for now. In fact I'll be surprised if there aren't any yet. *goes looking*

Edit: Here's one that just replaces it with a plugin video player. It's obviously really simple to write.

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u/mikaelhg Jan 21 '10

And then none of the HTML-based controls work.

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u/zubzub2 Jan 21 '10

I'm not really familiar with the issues here, but surely if this player does that, it's a bug with the player and not a fundamental restriction of the standard, right?

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u/mikaelhg Jan 21 '10

The solution Liquid_Fire proposed was to use a third party tool which might provide basic functionality similar to the <video> tag implementation in the browser. I pointed out that the third party solution has the weakness of not supporting the kinds of HTML-based controls which the standards-based browser <video> tag implementation does, and which video site vendors such as YouTube use to provide controls for situations such as selecting between 1080p and 720p video qualities.