Hicham HAOUARI

Mozilla have finally started a formal review of gstreamer patch to support gstreamer backend for HTML5 videos. The patch have been divided into four parts to ease the review for the concerned mozilla developers.

Just as a reminder, Firefox uses now its own codecs, namely for ogg in the current release and webm in the upcoming release. From a free software point of view, this is great, because Mozilla will force video sharing websites to use free codes, however, this turns out to be not an ideal solution.

After installing seamonkey, I tried to remove xulrunner, but it said that it should remove java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin as well, which is weird for me. Why should the plugin depend on xulrunner ? shouldn't it be engine independent ?

Anyway I filed a bug about it : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531981

After installing Fedora 12 Beta successfully ( with almost no problems at all ), I thought of trying the brand new SeaMonkey 2.0 since it is available in the rawhide repo.

My first impression was : "wow, but wow". What a great startup time, and what a speedy browser !

But as some users will admit, it lacks some stuff from Firefox UI. So I googled and tried to install those little things manually.

The new video tag implementation in Firefox is just exciting. I really consider it as a revolution of multimedia web content !

No more user harassement, nothing to install, everything is prebuilt into the browser.

This a test video ( in ogg format ), if you see it, it means that your browser supports the new video tag.

Great news also, Dailymotion is already offering videos without proprietary plugin to install at : http://openvideo.dailymotion.com, Youtube is offering some samples ( that Youtube video didn't work for me ) at : http://www.youtube.com/html5.

If your browser doesn't support video tag yet, hurry up and download the latest Firefox version.

Solang is now in official Fedora 11 repos, to install it, just type :

su -c 'yum install solang'

Consequently, it will be removed from my repo.