Mozilla is drafting a proposal for a new web standard called MediaStream Processing that introduces JavaScript APIs for manipulating audio and video streams in real time. The specification is still at an early stage of development, but Mozilla has already started working on an implementation for testing purposes.
Flash Player running in Firefox for Mobile Adobe may be abandoning Mobile Flash , but Mozilla is pushing forward with Flash in Firefox for Mobile. In addition to the new native Android UI we recently showcased , the latest nightly builds of Firefox for Android now offer experimental support for the Flash plugin. If you’d like to give it a try, head over to the Mozilla nightly builds page and download a copy of Firefox for Android (note that if you have the beta release installed you’ll need to remove that first)
Video on the web has always been a bit disappointing. After all, it’s pretty much just like television, only smaller. Unlike the rest of the web, video is just as much a passive experience in your browser as it is anywhere else
Scaling options for SVG images Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) have long been the ideal way to create images that need to scale without distorting. For example, SVG is a great format for an icon or logo that needs to be displayed at several sizes without pixelation or other distortion.
For a brief time in the early ’90s Geocities was the web. And, for all its shortcomings, Geocities did nevertheless usher in much of what makes the web great — that anyone can create nearly anything.
Adobe has announced Flash Player 11, a significant update for the company’s beleaguered browser plugin. Flash Player 11 will give Flash developers access to an impressive set of hardware-accelerated 3D graphics tools.
Web Developer Evan Wallace has released one of the more impressive WebGL demos we’ve seen. Provided you’re using a capable browser (Firefox, Chrome or Safari), head on over to Wallace’s WebGL Water demo and be amazed. If you stay abreast of the latest and greatest in web browsers you’ve probably heard of WebGL , an API for adding hardware-accelerated 3D rendering to the HTML5 Canvas tag
Adobe has released a preview version of a new HTML animation tool dubbed Edge.