Long term future of Camino?

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Re: Long term future of Camino?

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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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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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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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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?

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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.
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Are any of the developers trying to do crude implements of Webkit into Camino at the moment?
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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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