Posts Tagged: web


30
Apr 10

using bugzilla, the right way

Yes, I admit it, I hate bugzilla. I mean, the bug tracking is something indispensable for every software project, but digging in its web interface for quick searches, I just find it unbearably awful.

But I guess I came across with the right tool for overcome this web madness: pybugz

On the other hand, I’ve to say that I agree about using bugzilla to keep track of patches, it’s a bad idea too. A properly organised mailing list and maybe a patchwork, if the traffic is massive, as helper.


9
Mar 10

apache configuration for video tag in firefox

In contrast with Epiphany-WebKit, Firefox seems to be quite picky at rendering videos through the HTML5 tag <video>: it demands the correct HTTP headers.

It doesn’t assume anything. If the stream doesn’t have the correct headers, Firefox just will put a black box in you face without any further explanation.

In order to overcome this issue, struggling a little with the sparse information available through the Internet, I came with this .htaccess file:

AddType video/ogg          .ogv
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header unset Etag
FileETag None

First of all, my Apache server doesn’t recognize the video/ogg mime type.

Second, the header MUST NOT include the ETag key.

And finally, there’s new header, which isn’t fully implemented by the all browsers, but it will be, and will mess up all our pages with embedded videos, is the cross domain accessibility.

More information:

http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html
http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/11/video-audio-and-cross-domain-usage.html
http://en.flossmanuals.net/TheoraCookbook/MyHosting
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-speed-etags.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_headers.html


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