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A new project: XulTitles!

Aug 3

Posted by willyaranda in Education, Projects | No Comments

Hi guys! (post intended to Mozilla Planet Education ;) )

A lot time since last blogging, but now I’m exam-free, yay!

But let me explain: from 13 to 17 of July, I went to the Mozilla Madrid Technologies Course (MMTC from now), where Pascal, Vivien and Paul explain us how to use Mozilla technologies, how to create an extension, how Gecko works and all mozilla related stuff that they could show us. (see Paul’s blogpost)

So, then we need to have a project to work on. We can choose what to do (extensions, documentation, Firefox or Fennec…), and there is a lot of nice projects (see the list).

In my case I have decided to work on a XulRunner app to create and edit subtitles with openvideo (do we love OGG/Theora, don’t we?) and right now I’m prototyping the functions and what and how to do in my app and a basic UI.

So in the next weeks I’m going to blog more often, writing about the progress I have done, I’m also crossposting to the Planet that Pascal has open to centralize all our work.

Have a nice summer!

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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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