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Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support

Posted by timothy on from the cause-for-optimism dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 <video> tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies. Theora is the only video format allowed on Wikimedia Commons, so Wikimedia people are pushing Wikipedia readers to download a nightly and try it out. Break it, crash it, report bugs, get it into good shape and nullify Apple and Nokia's FUD the best way possible. They may have gotten the words 'Vorbis' and 'Theora' removed from the HTML5 spec, but the market will tell them when their browsers are sucking."

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  1. Re:amount of content by interiot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wikipedia needs your penis movies. You would think that with anonymity and with the rare opportunity to flaunt their packages in front of the world, people would be tripping all over themselves to upload their junk, but sadly it just isn't so. </sarcasm>

  2. Firefox developers lost in Canada :-) by mattMad · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am not sure whether Firefox 3.1 will ever be finished as most Firefox developers seem to be trapped without power in Canada... :-) See: http://planet.mozilla.org/