Category Archives: The Web

Screencast Ideas

Firefox Support


Last month I had the opportunity to visit the Mozilla office in Mountain View. While I was there I had an interesting discussion with a few people from the SUMO team (short for support.mozilla.com) about some of the challenges with adding screencasts to their support articles. Since the volunteer community creates most of the content, it’s not always feasible for screencasts to have narration. Also, if they did, they’d somehow have to be localized into more than 70 languages. Read More »

Remove Hidden Admin Users In WordPress

This video is 1280 x 720 – watch it in fullscreen to see the details.

This is, sadly, a report about the present. I read reports yesterday about an attack on all versions of WordPress except the very latest – 2.8.4. I have a bunch of sites that I maintain and many of them were pretty easy to upgrade by using the built-in automatic upgrade feature. Read More »

Video Tag Embed With Fallbacks

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Ryanne, Jay and I have been trying to come up with a good way to embed ogg video with the new video tag Read More »

Open Video

Following up on the last post about HTML 5 and OGG video, here are some ideas that I’ve been thinking about in preparation for the Open Video Conference. If you have some ideas please leave a comment here or email me.
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HTML 5 + OGG

Today I was playing with Ogg video (Theora) and the new HTML 5 video element which is supported in the Firefox 3.1 beta. This is a short screencast showing Ogg video playing in the new Firefox and the simplicity of using the video element. This video is 1280 x 800 so be sure to click the fullscreen button to see the details.

There is an Ogg version embeded after the jump. (Get the Firefox 3.1 beta)
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