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open-source video  Mozilla close to adopting common codec
Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox
that could increase the use of open-source video software.
Firefox 3.1, the next major release due by early next year, will
likely include support for a new HTML tag specifically for
embedding video in web pages. Firefox 3.1 will also support
royalty-free video codec Ogg Theora.  Firefox developers at a
summit last week in Whistler, British Columbia, said they had
started working on native Theora support, and test builds of the
browser incorporating the new feature are available.  The code
committed so far is a work in progress, wrote Chris Double, a
Mozilla engineer who has been handling the project, "but it's a
start towards using a common codec across all platforms and will
improve as we get towards the 3.1 release".  Firefox 3.0 review
When the upgrade is finalised, Firefox users won't have to
download a plug-in to play