video tag, Dreamhost and Firefox 3.5

I’m copy-pasting a blog post from blizzard, as we had a conversation on IRC about using the video tag on Firefox and Dreamhost hosting (due a problem with my other blog (in Spanish)):

A quick note if you’re going to be using OGG open web video hosted on web servers. There’s an important configuration change that you should make so that Firefox recognizes it as video. In my Apache configuration I’ve added this directive:

AddType application/ogg .ogg
AddType application/ogg .ogx AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType audio/ogg .oga

Most web servers are likely to return the mime type as “text/plain” which Mozilla will not show as video. If you don’t set it, and it’s served up as text/plain then Firefox is likely to show either an error or endless buffering. (Although I suspect that the endless buffering is actually a bug in our internal player and will likely be fixed.)

Update 2: You should look at this post from Silvia for the correct information. Thanks, Frank.

Anyway, you should follow the original post, as it could be updated since the publish of this post.

And I have sent an email to Dreamhost support to get a global support for .ogv files. I will post the decision as soon as I’m getting the answer.

It's time to change to another browser…

First of all, if you are reading me from education.mozilla.org planet, sorry for my bad english. I’m trying to improve it!

Second, thanks to David Humphrey for adding me to the planet. I will try to keep you informed about thing we are doing in Spain, more concise, in education world (as I’m currently a college student).

One of my first problems on University was to see only Windows computers on it (I’m studying computer engineering, and this is a bit depressing). You shouldn’t have only Windows-machines availables to the students if you are going to teach future computer engineers. So we (my colleagues and me) discovered that we have Linux machines in laboratories, where we can write our own code in a standard way easily and using open source software.

But the most depressing thing about having only Windows-based machines is that you have only one browser per default: Internet Explorer. Not only the bad Internet Explorer. We have Internet Explorer 6!!

Nobody doubts about Internet Explorer. It sucks, and v6 is old (not updated for 5 years) and it’s slowing the web (and developers’ brain). So I’ve thought about trying to install Firefox on all computers. Well, yeah, I can’t, users don’t have enough perms to install new things.

I’m not yet an expert about operating systems and LANs, but I think each student has her/his user, not an «student» standard account and I don’t know how are stored documents of each student, because we usually wait about a minute from the login window to the full desktop (it seems that all is retrieved from an intranet server).

So, what do you think I should do in order to try to make Firefox as the default browser on my University?

For me, the best option is to talk with IT guys and try to explain them what is Firefox (in case they don’t know it!). And then convince it about the Fox and his friends 😛

Have you driven a similar change? If so, please, contact me on this blog post’s comments.

PS: And if you have time, please, write down my grammatical errors to improve my English. Thanks!

Fosdem 2009, here we go!

Members from Mozilla Hispano team are going to the Fosdem 2009 in Brussels. Nukeador, StripTM, Ricardo and me will be from tomorrow, 6th, to 8th evening.

Beer algorithm in FOSDEM 2009 And we must try the new Beer Distribution Algorithm that has been developed for this FOSDEM, the shiny v3.1. We need to debug it and find some regression bugs from the last algorithm 3.0.

So, be tuned. The next 3 days will be legen, wait for it, dary!

And I’m very sad because FrancJP won’t come with us because… he has a new job! Congrats!