On 11/01/2008, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> If/when do Wikimedia sites plan to start using
the HTML5 <VIDEO>
> element to serve up Ogg Theora? (Is there similar for Ogg Vorbis?)
> Soon? Release of Firefox 3? Whenever? If someone's using Safari or a
> Nokia, will it suggest their experience will suck less with a real web
> browser? What's the plan?
We do already, if the client supports it and no other
video playing method
is available. I couldn't put it any higher in the preference list in good
conscience, since the only available implementation (Opera's demo) was
incomplete and buggy.
ahahaha :-) I've checked how it's going in Firefox 3:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382267
The WHATWG spec is reasonably solid now, so there's something stable
for them to program against. *Cross fingers* it's ready in good shape
for Firefox 3 release.
(I've been using Minefield, the Firefox 3 nightlies. Some builds are
crappy, but in general it's really pretty nice. Feels like Firefox but
with a lot of little slicknesses added. I like it a lot.)
- d.