Monthly Archives: May 2012

HTML5 media and non-HTML5 media

By david.humphrey | Published: May 30, 2012
I’m spending almost all of my time these days on three Mozilla video projects: Popcorn.js, the Butter SDK, and the soon-to-be-beta Popcorn Maker tool.  Yesterday, after weeks of bug fixing and reviews, we hit code freeze for the 0.5 release of Butter and Popcorn Maker (due out in late June).  The 1.3 release of Popcorn.js [...]
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Fixing subpixel rendering on OS X secondary monitors

By david.humphrey | Published: May 22, 2012
Quite a while ago Apple did a 10.6 update which basically destroyed the rendering on my secondary monitor.  Beside my 27″ iMac I use a 24″ Dell U2410 turned vertically.  I like this orientation a lot for writing code or working through long pieces of text.  And because I use it almost exclusively for working [...]
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Focus and Select: a cross-browser bed time story

By david.humphrey | Published: May 14, 2012
Here’s an annoying little DOM’ism that stumped me last week (don’t worry, there’s a happy ending if you keep reading).  In Popcorn Maker’s UI I wanted to fix a few places where we have textboxes that contain data from json manifests.  When you click on such a pre-populated textbox, it’s nice if the contents of [...]
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