Thursday, October 29, 2009
Well, it took almost 2 months and a complaint, but Embedded Objects 2.0 was finally reviewed. This version brings 2 fixes: Apple Trailers support: Apple keeps trying to block downloading from their site (and I’ll keep trying to stop their games) Support to Firefox’s cache: when Firefox loads a page for the first time it [...]
Just Mozilla’s review process. I submitted a new version on September 1, that corrects 2 bugs brought to my attention: 1 – it uses the browser cache now, which should make easier to people with slow connections to download content (no more downloading 2 times the same file); 2 – it’s possible to download trailers [...]
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Mozilla Foundation just approved the new version of Embedded Objects. I made some minor modifications to support Silverlight objects. Microsoft being Microsoft added a new attribute to the object tag, source, instead of using the existing src attribute. I also updated the QuickTime detection code: now it shows the original QuickTime file and the actual [...]
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Apple Trailers site has an impressive library of movie trailers, available both in standard and high definition (HD) formats. The problem is that QuickTime is an awful player and watching QuickTime videos inside the browser suck even more. To improve your viewing experience, you can download the trailers and watch them outside the browser using [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Mozilla Foundation just approved the new version of Embedded Objects. This version fixes a bug with some QuickTime videos and has improved mimetype detection. You can download it here.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Uma das coisas que eu gosto é de comprar livros que tratam da história da indústria de informática. Na Amazon é possível encontrar praticamente todos os livros já publicados sobre o assunto. Um livro que aborda o início dessa história é What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. O [...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
I just finished the new version of Embedded Objects. I fixed a small bug that prevented downloading Apple HD trailers, it works great now. I also improved the code a little bit, now when you try to download a QuickTime (.mov) file, instead of downloading the entire file and then inspecting it to look for [...]
Apple changed the way they store the videos for their Movie Trailers service a little while ago. Instead of a direct QuickTime file, they offer a placeholder file that hides the link to real one, preventing people from saving the movie unless they use the Pro version of QuickTime. My Firefox extension, Embedded Objects now [...]