"The WHATWG HTML 5 working draft has a specification for a 'video' element.I briefly mentioned in a previous post that I was working on implementing this tag natively in Firefox. The intent is to display Ogg Theora encoded video without needing any plugins...

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

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

"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..."

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 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

"The git repository has multiple branches which means a little more git usage is needed to get at the Ogg (and soon, GStreamer) backends. [...] By default the 'master' branch has a checked out working tree. Building this produces element support without any decoder. One approach to building the Ogg backend is to create a local branch with the commits from the remote branch origin/ogg and build that..."

the and tags along with native support for Theora video and Vorbis audio are currently enabled in the Firefox nightly builds. This will ship in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 coming later this year. This is not new news but I did want to provide my perspective on why this is important[...] Download a Firefox nightly build here and test it out here or on Wikimedia Commons.

"During a weekend I worked on XPCOMViewer and I tested it on Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 2. I was really suprised when I’ve noticed that Firefox 3 supports the element..."