Comments on: Mark Surman interview in Sept 08

By: Steve Lee

Steve Lee — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:15:29 +0000

Unfortunately I only get about .25s of sound on latest nightly on Ubuntu. Will dig around to see if anything obvious stopping the video tag working

By: Gary Kwong

Gary Kwong — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:21:06 +0000

@Peter, mcsmurf: re: Autoplay, which isn’t a good idea, so I took out the autoplay attribute that was described in devmo. Hopefully it works now..

By: mcsmurf

mcsmurf — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:16:00 +0000

Does this really need to be autoplay? Now it starts playing every time I visit planet.m.o

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:50:11 +0000

Ogg Theora in a video tag is awesome, except that now you’ve got an autoplay video with sound on planet.mozilla.org.

By: Gary Kwong

Gary Kwong — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:19:11 +0000

@Robert, fixed the original comment with what you intended.

Thanks for this brilliant suggestion! Took me a bit of reading up Mozilla developer documentation and encoding on Mac using the Simple Theora Encoder to finish the conversion.

By: Robert Kaiser

Robert Kaiser — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:09:31 +0000

Thanks Gary! (and I was talking about video elements but the blog detected it as a tag and stripped that out apparently…)

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Home of KaiRo: Is There A Better Way To Promote What We Are? — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:07:50 +0000

[...] There A Better Way To Promote What We Are? Gary Kwong posted an interview with Mark Surman on the Rumbling Edge – now available as HTML5 in Ogg Theora format! Is there any [...]

By: Robert Kaiser

Robert Kaiser — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:48:16 +0000

Why not make those available as Ogg Theora files on an HTML page with elements?