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video tag, Dreamhost and Firefox 3.5

Mar 10

Posted by willyaranda in Education, Mozilla planet, firefox 3 | 1 Comment

I’m copy-pasting a blog post from blizzard, as we had a conversation on IRC about using the video tag on Firefox and Dreamhost hosting (due a problem with my other blog (in Spanish)):

A quick note if you’re going to be using OGG open web video hosted on web servers. There’s an important configuration change that you should make so that Firefox recognizes it as video. In my Apache configuration I’ve added this directive:

AddType application/ogg .ogg

AddType application/ogg .ogx

AddType video/ogg .ogv

AddType audio/ogg .oga

Most web servers are likely to return the mime type as “text/plain” which Mozilla will not show as video. If you don’t set it, and it’s served up as text/plain then Firefox is likely to show either an error or endless buffering. (Although I suspect that the endless buffering is actually a bug in our internal player and will likely be fixed.)

Update 2: You should look at this post from Silvia for the correct information. Thanks, Frank.

Anyway, you should follow the original post, as it could be updated since the publish of this post.

And I have sent an email to Dreamhost support to get a global support for .ogv files. I will post the decision as soon as I’m getting the answer.

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Localizing Firefox 3

Jun 26

Posted by willyaranda in es-ES, firefox 3 | 5 Comments

Well, since I saw a post of sethb about translating and localizing Firefox, I’m trying to do some post about my experience with that case, but with exams, some work and more things, I will post this today ;)

My experience (it’s a person inside of me) says me that it he/she/it hasn’t worked too much… I began with a existing Firefox 2 translation (I don’t remember if it was only a 2.0.0.x translation or a 2.+ translation (on the trunk)), but it was easy to continue. Ricardo Palomares (owner of the es-ES team, and admin of www.proyectonave.es, and translator of Sunbird, and Thunderbird…) helped me with my environment, and it was really really easy to continue his job.

I use Mozilla Translator. Why? It’s simple, easy and has a good UI to manage all things I need, and, of course, because last translator of Firefox es-ES used it.

We use some bash scripts to do the work: one for checking out en-US files (or update), another with my CVS account to check out es-ES files and another to open MT with appropriate settings.

Once it’s opened, press Ctrl+U and you will see new strings to be translated, or modified, or something… Finish the translation and… Export to CVS!! Check in your changes and… that’s it!! You will have a nice build in a few minutes

And that works.

I see people complain about MT and a little problems with that, but if you set a good enviroment and check all things, you will have a nice tool (mmmm, maybe a wiki page?? [wait, writing down on my hand], oook).

The thing is: if you work along the timeline, you will have a nice and near-0-errors final build in your own language. Obviously, you have to translate, but always localize, so, it might be difficult to find a search engine for your region, or a dictionary, or ebay in your language… And protocols-handler too!! (what a headache!!). We decided to keep the same newsfeed (20minutos.es), a free and Creative Commons diary daily, so less things to think about.

The next thing is fix some bad translated strings and check in in the “trunk”.

Next-next thing: mozilla-central!! (cvs, bazar, svn, hg!!!)

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8M downloads in 24hours!!!

Jun 19

Posted by willyaranda in Marketing, World Record, firefox 3 | No Comments

WE did it!!!

Firefox3downloads

Amazing, around 8.3M downloads in 24hours. 83TB of data only in 24hours.

You have downloaded Firefox 3 yesterday? Go and get your certificate!

Amazing guys, amazing!!!

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3, 2, 1 and… Go!!

Jun 17

Posted by willyaranda in World Record, firefox 3 | No Comments

19:00:00 in Spain.

10:00:00 in PDT.

It’s time to Firefox 3. Download it, and help us to make a Guiness Record!!

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Google Toolbar is here!!

Jun 17

Posted by willyaranda in firefox 3 | No Comments

Now compatible with Firefox 3, that will be released this afternoon (17h UTC).

Alex Polvi told us…

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Widget: Time until Firefox 3

Jun 12

Posted by willyaranda in firefox 3 | No Comments

Firefox 3

Add this code to your page:

<a href="http://www.mozilla-hispano.org/images/ff3-cuenta-atras.php"><img style="border: none" src="http://www.mozilla-hispano.org/images/ff3-cuenta-atras.png.php" alt="Firefox 3" /></a>

Mozilla-Hispano (Nukeador and StripTM) did it.

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5 days to go!

Jun 12

Posted by willyaranda in firefox 3 | No Comments

Victory!!

[Another sizes here]

17th June, 2008.

Note this date on your calendar. Firefox 3 will be shipped this day.

Waiting for that, you can download a RC (RC3 at this momment).

Anyway, you can spread the word and make a world record.

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Performance on Firefox 3

Jun 2

Posted by willyaranda in firefox 3 | No Comments

A big article of Tristan Nitot about the performance on Firefox 3, JS and real world.

Must read.

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Firebug on Firefox 3

May 22

Posted by willyaranda in Add-ons, firefox 3 | No Comments

As we are getting closer to the final release of Firefox 3, all our appreciated addons are being updated to work on Firefox 3.

Now, the turn of Firebug.

Firebug 1.2 beta released. Big improvements on memory and stability.

Recommended.

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10 razones para cambiar a Firefox 3

Apr 22

Posted by willyaranda in Events, Firefox, Marketing, es-ES, firefox 3, l10n | 1 Comment

Esta es la traducción libre de un artículo escrito por Tristan Nitot, presidente de Mozilla Europe, posteado en su blog hace unos días:


Cada vez estamos más cerca del lanzamiento de Firefox 3 (en Junio), y a menudo la gente me pregunta por qué deberían cambiar su navegador actual, predefinido con su sistema operativo. La respuesta corta es que su viejo navegador está obsoleto, y puedo decir esto genuinamente. Pero esto deja muy poco espacio para la gente que realmente quiere saber cuáles son los beneficios actuales de usar Firefox 3. Por eso, he escrito la siguiente lista:

Diez razones para elegir Firefox 3 sobre tu navegador obsoleto

Una navegación segura

  • 1 – Proporciona un historial de seguridad reconocido con mayor frecuencia que otros navegadores, actualizaciones transparentes, por eso debes usar un navegador seguro
  • 2 – Protección contra malware: bloqueo de descargas indeseadas como virus y troyanos.

Mejoras en la navegación, con miles de características y fallos arreglados

  • 3 – “La barra alucinante”, puedes encontrar páginas visitadas con anterioridad fácilmente con una serie de palabras clave
  • 4 – “Guardar y cerrar” es una opción que permite guardar tus últimas pestañas y ventanas al salir del navegador, y al reabrirle empezar desde el punto en el cual lo dejaste
  • 5 – Recordar contraseñas sin un cuadro de diálogo, por lo que ahora puedes decidir si recordar o no las contraseñas después de conectarte a un sitio
  • 6 – Nuevo gestor de descargas, donde el usuario pueden pausar una descarga y continuarla posteriormente, ayudándose del nuevo motor de búsqueda
  • 7 – Personalizable: cambia la apariencia (temas) y añade características (extensiones) a firefox mediante el gestor de complementos incluído de serie. Hay más de 5.000 extensiones hechas por la comunidad disponibles de forma libre.

Mejor rendimiento

  • 8 – Más rápido en complejas aplicaciones web, como GMail, por eso es más cómodo, incluso en ordenadores antiguos
  • 9 – Usa menos memoria que cualquier otro navegador, por lo que puedes conseguir más con tu máquina
  • 10 – Haciendo que la web avance, soportando estándares web, por lo que la web evoluciona y hace que los usuarios se beneficien a largo plazo.

He intentado lidiar con los términos de código abierto / gratis / libre, pero se ha intentado ser lo más conciso posible, pero es difícil decir en pocas palabras los grandes beneficios que recibirán los usuarios al usar este software.