Welcome Firefox 3.5!
The latest version of Firefox has just been released with native support of the new HTML video tag. A few weeks ago, Dailymotion launched an experimental web site to test and promote open video formats and this new tag while Firefox 3.5 was still in beta.
Today, we once again are assisting Mozilla in the launch of Firefox 3.5, by serving their “Thank You” video on What’s New page, which users will see this after installation of the browser’s latest iteration.
Thanks to a recommendation from the Mozilla technical team, we are now serving the Ogg videos with new HTTP headers in order to facilitate the display of the video in the browser. We now have all the infrastructure necessary to encode, serve and display more than 410,000 videos encoded in Ogg with the <video> tag. At the recent Open Video Conference in New York, many attendees from various organizations met with us to help us continue to improve the new service for our users.
And finally, a worldwide advertising campaign just started yesterday on Dailymotion in support of Firefox 3.5. We hope that it will encourage you to download a more modern, effective and secure browser for surfing web sites like Dailymotion.