I don't think you'll ever see H.264 support implemented in a Mozilla product while the current leadership of Mozilla Corporation is in place. They're too rabidly anti-anything-that-isn't-free-as-in-speech and refuse to use codecs other than Ogg for things like video. So don't hold your breath.
I personally think this is an utterly idiotic way of going about things, and I think most of the rest of the Camino team agrees with me, but the decision is far out of our hands.
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Re: Long term future of Camino?
cflawson wrote:I don't think you'll ever see H.264 support implemented in a Mozilla product while the current leadership of Mozilla Corporation is in place. They're too rabidly anti-anything-that-isn't-free-as-in-speech and refuse to use codecs other than Ogg for things like video. So don't hold your breath.
Hmm: google search (the 2 tophits, ars technica, had a good overview of the state of discussion; but they are currently 404, the revamp broke redirects ?)
But no, I'm not holding my breath… bad for my sick lungs; beside, current thinking at Mozilla Corp wont help Camino anyway.
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Re: Long term future of Camino?
phiw13 wrote:cflawson wrote:I don't think you'll ever see H.264 support implemented in a Mozilla product while the current leadership of Mozilla Corporation is in place. They're too rabidly anti-anything-that-isn't-free-as-in-speech and refuse to use codecs other than Ogg for things like video. So don't hold your breath.
Hmm: google search (the 2 tophits, ars technica, had a good overview of the state of discussion; but they are currently 404, the revamp broke redirects ?)
But no, I'm not holding my breath… bad for my sick lungs; beside, current thinking at Mozilla Corp wont help Camino anyway.
In the meantime, leopard-webkit supports full H.264.
Would like to see more robust pop-up blocking in the long term future of Camino.
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Re: Long term future of Camino?
Actually, a Kickstarter project is not a bad idea. I would kick in for that for sure.
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Re: Long term future of Camino?
What about going the same way as Native Fennec. It doesn't use XUL for it's UI. Cocoa would have to be used instead of Android Java.
As a mozilla project that would be a much better way than adopting WebKit, IMO.
As a mozilla project that would be a much better way than adopting WebKit, IMO.
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Re: Long term future of Camino?
Are any of the developers trying to do crude implements of Webkit into Camino at the moment?
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Re: Long term future of Camino?
David Munch wrote:Are any of the developers trying to do crude implements of Webkit into Camino at the moment?
There is no coding occurring on this at the moment.
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