On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org wrote:
Could you point me to the specs that the html5 browsers are using? Would it be possible to just make Firefogg mimic this same protocol for pre-html5 Firefox?
The relevant spec is here:
Firefox 3.6 doesn't implement it exactly, since it was changed after Firefox's implementation, but the changes should mostly be compatible (as I understand it). But it's not good enough for large files, since it has to read them into memory.
But anyway, what's the point in telling people to install an extension if we can just tell them to upgrade Firefox? Something like two-thirds of our Firefox users are already on 3.6:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm