Firefox v4.0b8 WebM video works on youtube

[David T. Johnson]

I tested the firefox 12/4/2010 build that R. Walsh uploaded to netlabs and the HTML5 WebM video actually works on Youtube with the firefox v4b8 build...which I have not seen previously. It has to be a video that youtube has converted to WebM (most are not...yet) but, if it is, you will see the player controls in the window with a little tag 'HTML5 WebM' at the bottom. The video quality is very good 360p which is much better than the old flash 7 plugin could offer on OS/2. You might have read that Google (the owner of youtube) and Microsoft are locked in battle over the HTML5 video standard. Microsoft is supporting H.264 while Google is supporting WebM which is completely open source and without any IP restrictions. Microsoft has put H.264 support into Internet Explorer 9. here's the link to the OS/2 firefox build: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/firefox-20101204.zip You can join the HTML5 video trial here: http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then click on the 'join the HTML5 Trial' link at the bottom of the page. Have fun... Posted with OS/2 Warp 4.52 and Sea Monkey 1.5a