Firefox 3.6 Aims to Bring Fullscreen, Open Source Video to the Web

October 5th, 2009 admin

Mozilla is pushing ahead with its open video support in the Firefox web browser. Current developer builds of Firefox 3.6, expected to arrive later this year, now include a fullscreen option for movies embedded using the HTML5 video tag. Early in the development of HTML5, the spec’s authors toyed with the idea of including a mandate requiring all browsers to support the open source Ogg Theora video codec. The goal was to create a single, open source video solution that would work in every browser. Currently video on the …


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