Please test Theora in Firefox nightlies.

[reddragdiva]

• Quite possibly the ugliest user interface ever.

• Six zombie technologies.

Been on-call, going stir crazy. arkady has had the flu thing I had last week, which appears to have been fifth disease. Freda's been following Daddy up and down the stairs all week :-D

Handed a pile of money to BiCon, so I shall go to the ball. Tomorrow night I have a date with redcountess penciled in, Saturday afternoon/evening is hazyjayne's birthday.

I've been managing a post a day to Rocknerd. Tell your friends to read!

Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis support for the HTML5 <video> element has landed in Firefox Minefield nightlies (3.1a2-pre). This is big news because it means a standard way of displaying video in web browsers will be available to all without being stuck with Flash. And Theora is the only accepted format on Wikimedia Commons. See posts from Greg Maxwell, Christopher Blizzard, Chris Double and Gervase Markham.

What we need is people to test this. So please download a copy of Minefield, test it thoroughly on Wikimedia Commons video, beat on it, thrash it, report bugs. There's plenty. You need to load the video, click "More ..." and it'll give you the option. Wikimedia would very much like to make it a first option rather than a last one, but first it needs to be better (more functional and stable) than loading Cortado with Java.

Apple and Nokia tried some truly disgusting FUD around the topic and successfully got the words "Vorbis" and "Theora" taken out of the HTML5 spec, but Firefox adoption means 20% of Web users in short order. So we can leave them to play catchup per business needs. "You got a Nokia? No wonder you can't watch that Wikipedia video, Nokias suck."

Comments

[rosefox]

I sent the hideous UI thing over to jsmoak.

Jim Smoak: i dunno. looks pretty cool for a geek to use
Rose Fox: it's ugly as sin
Jim Smoak: geeks don't care
Rose Fox: i'm a geek and i care
Rose Fox: every geek i know cares
Jim Smoak: not geeks that work at the command line

*facepalm*

So I sent it to the_xtina for a reality check.

Xtina: *shrieks*
Xtina: *closes window*
Xtina: *STARES*

Whew, okay, I feel better now.

[reddragdiva]

Then he needs to be kept on the command line and never allowed to know the existence of pictures on computers.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Second link is overloadedness itself google cache here (http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:qk2uu1vnQKAJ:www.cracked.com/article_16518_tech-zombies-6-technologies-that-dont-know-theyre-dead.html+http://www.cracked.com/article_16518_tech-zombies-6-technologies-that-dont-know-theyre-dead.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari)

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

Actually I will be 21 (again!) all day on Saturday ;-)

[oddlystrange.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly the ugliest user interface ever.

Wow... um... wow... WTF? Apple should sue him for using its "software update" icon, the suit should claim "doused in ugly" and "interface only a retard could love."

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

That UI is only incrementally more garish than certain of the 'doze utilities provided by the maker of the motherboard I'm typing this on. (Er. You know what I mean.) (Also, I feel compelled to add that it hasn't run the aforementioned 'doze for quite a while now.)

"You got a Nokia? No wonder you can't watch that Wikipedia video, Nokias suck."

Well, my N810 runs Emacs now, so surely there's something that can be done.

[commlal.livejournal.com]

Thats one ass ugly interface. If I were to write a book on how to do UI then that would be public enemy no1 on how not to design one. Ye gads, and I've used some ugly ass ones.

Ahhhh is that the semi proper name for slapped cheek, its one of those annoying viruses that is not serious just makes you (or baby) feel like utter crap. Paracetamol, bedrest, fluids and computer games cure all.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Don't believe them about the phone books, though. Imagine I get one big thick phone book and one big thick Yellow Pages and two crappy local directories a year - even now, if a year's worth of black bin rubbish was only 10 times the size of those volumes, I'd be delighted. *One* black bin is about 10 times the size of those volumes.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Ow, my eyes...

[pndc.livejournal.com]

In this house, DVDs and physical game media will be dead and replaced by downloads if they're not able to be turned off at the whim of the software producer.

The only obsolete technology I see there is the telephone directory, but that's because the information within isn't useful. Exactly how often do I need to know the landline number of somebody in Fulham? If it's a person, they'll have given me their mobile number. If it's a business, it's on the front of the shop.