Saturday, 4 July 2009

Faces Of The Web Video Revolution

There's a lot of press these days about the HTML5 <video> tag and the struggle for universal unencumbered video and audio codecs --- much of it associated with the Firefox 3.5 launch. I wonder how many people know that the Firefox video implementation is almost entirely due to just a few people in the Mozilla office in Newmarket --- Chris Double, Matthew Gregan, Chris Pearce, and to a lesser extent, me. (Justin Dolske did the controls UI, but I'm not sure where he lives!) I'm proud that we managed to get considerably more done for the 3.5 release than I expected.

It's a great privilege to have the opportunity to really shake up the world for the better, with a very small team, in a relatively small amount of time, and do it right here in Auckland. I'm very thankful.


Chris Pearce, Chris Double and Matthew Gregan


Posted by Robert at 10:21
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17 comments:

  1. Wladimir Palant4 July 2009 at 11:09

    I know that you are not on this photo so I guess it's Chris Double, Matthew Gregan, Chris Pearce there. Did you list them from left to right? It would be interesting to associate some faces with these names ;)

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  2. RichB4 July 2009 at 11:31

    Sounds like your team created their own codec too.

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  3. Robin4 July 2009 at 11:58

    Thanks guys! Here’s to a web where video is a first-class citizen :)

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  4. Jonathan Watt4 July 2009 at 13:09

    Nice job guys! :-)

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  5. Paul Kim4 July 2009 at 14:27

    Thank you guys. I've shared the news here: http://twitter.com/firefox/status/2453644659

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  6. Johnath4 July 2009 at 14:37

    @Wladimir - Left to Right: Pearce, Double, Gregan

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  7. Funtomas4 July 2009 at 14:56

    Thanks guys and congrats.

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  8. Ivan Garcia4 July 2009 at 16:20

    Great!

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  9. insertrealname4 July 2009 at 16:51

    Just as a point of reference, what are the minimal tested hardware requirements for the built-in Firefox 3.5 codecs? I'm using a now obsolete AMD Turion 1.6GHz uni-processor which has at least SSE2 support, 1MB L2 cache, on a notebook with 2GB memory running Windows XP; my download internet connection is about 500KBytes/sec max. (modulo other factors). Yet the introductory video (the multilingual "Thank you for upgrading...", mozilla.com's "What's new in 3.5" page) still stutters with the CPU mostly pegged 100%. Is my hardware simply too wimpy?

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  10. Justin Dolske4 July 2009 at 18:30

    I should note that while I did the controls' implementation, Jennifer Boriss did the visual design. We're both in Mountain View. :-)

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  11. Tristan5 July 2009 at 06:23

    My heroes!

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  12. Brian Birtles5 July 2009 at 12:40

    Go team! :)

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  13. Matthew Holloway7 July 2009 at 01:42

    Great stuff guys!
    I always tell people that Firefox has a huge NZ contingent.

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  14. Tomas7 July 2009 at 05:49

    Sory, but there is not good news!
    http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62055739,00.htm?scid=rss_z_nw
    I want your answers!

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  15. Tom7 July 2009 at 07:49

    Nice work guys! I've been reading a lot about this recently and had no idea it had come from the office next door :)

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  16. Jonas Sicking8 July 2009 at 23:02

    Yay! Great thanks for all your excellent work!!

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  17. albi15 July 2009 at 01:16

    thanks for your excellent work!

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