This is really cool. Unfortunately, until Microsoft adds html5 video support to IE this might as well not even exist. Hopefully by 2012... if we're lucky.

Demo by Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, on how it uses an open source player to handle video.

Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, was in New York City today and dropped by my office to talk about Firefox 3.5, which is now officially a "preview" version (a very stable beta). Firefox 3.5 is supposedly much faster than earlier versions, which is always a good thing. Honestly, the nanosecond speed differences between most of today's latest browsers is becoming hard to detect. Three features of Firefox 3.5 which stand out for me are: 1) its embrace of open-source video standards, 2) its geo-location capabilities, and 3) support for downloadable fonts and other graphic tricks.