Yesterday the WebM open web media project was announced at Google I/O. Opera, Chromium and Firefox already have builds that support WebM. Over 1.2 million YouTube video clips are already available in WebM, and Google has announced it will sooner transcode all YouTube video to WebM. To test/play YouTube WebM video clips in Firefox, download Firefox WebM builds available for Mac, Windows and Linux platforms. Launch the newly installed Firefox nightly, go to www.youtube.com/html5 and join the HTML5 beta experiment, you need a Google account to enroll. More
The next major Firefox update, Firefox 4 (Firefox 3.7 is out of bounds) will feature an in-built web developers tool called Web Inspector. Though in its early stages this utility can help you to closely inspect elements that are being displayed on the current web page. Analogous to DOM inspector or Firebug inspector, in-built Inspector will support rulers & guides, palettes, layers, a graphical highlighter, it will be fast and pretty but its certainly not a return of DOMi into Firefox says Rob Cambell, the Mozilla developer leading the Inspector development. More
Mozilla, Google, Opera and forty other publishers such as Adobe have announced WebM, a “project dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.” This projects aims at setting the web free with an open alternative to the h2.64 format championed by Apple and Microsoft.
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Oracle just announced the release of the latest version of VirtualBox. “The VirtualBox team today released a significant new version of Oracle VM VirtualBox(TM), its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. VirtualBox 3.2, the first Oracle branded release since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc by Oracle Corp. earlier this year, contains many innovative new features which deliver further significant improvements in performance, power and supported guest operating system platforms.” More
If you’ve gotten yourself entangled in Facebooks privacy traps and seriously want to know those privacy settings have to be disabled but are currently enabled on your Facebook account, then use this handy bookmarklet from ReclaimPrivacy.org More
