"Version 5 of the patch to add Video element support to Firefox is up. This version rewrites a lot of the code to match the pseudocode in the WHATWG specification..."

"...Mozilla, the makers of Firefox and Opera are now working on creating a specification for embedding videos on video sites. The work also includes development and promotion of the open source video format Ogg Theora. The video encoded in Ogg Theora will be directly playable in web browsers thereby freeing users of the hassle of downloading all the three thousand foru hundred and ninety seven plugins. Ok, I exaggerated, but you got the point..."

"...User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as well as the Ogg container format..."

"...Firefox and Opera will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web pages. [...] If video encoded in Ogg Theora plays directly in the browser..."

"It was announced at the Firefox Plus summit today that Firefox will include native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements. So and will support those codecs built into Firefox itself..."

"The video element is used to embed video content in an HTML or XHTML document. The video element was added as part of HTML 5..." -- See also:
*Audio
*Using geolocation

Since last week's announcement of the YouTube and Vimeo beta versions which use HTML5's element, the Mozilla developers have been defending the fact that Firefox 3.6 cannot play the content on these betas even though it supports HTML5. The reason for the problem is that the HTML5 working groups decided not to specify which video codecs the tag would support.

"The patches in bug 382267 to add support for the WHATWG video and audio elements have been applied to the Firefox mozilla-central repository..."

"I've uploaded new builds of Firefox with experimental support for the WHATWG 'video' element. They are (compiled from this git commit)..."