Moonlight 4 available in beta
Moonlight 4 beta has been released. The open-source implementation of Silverlight now offers hardware acceleration (for the management of video and 3D GPU), or support the H.264 codec.
With this development release, Moonlight incorporates several new features of Silverlight 4, including support for APIs in Silverlight 3 and 4. It also helps build and run applications "outside the browser.
Firefox becomes the default browser of 400,000 IBM employees
A few hours ago, IBM announced a major change in its computers: Firefox browser will now default on desktops over 400,000 employees.
A new pet who comes in the direction of hair loss a browser full speed. The Mozilla software is indeed stagnating since reaching the 25% market share in November. The latest figures even show a slight decline, puisquee Firefox is used by 24.30% of Internet users in June 2010. And despite the arrival a few months ago the bundle Windows screen (which lets you choose the browser).
Competition is fierce, and Chrome (Google's rival) has quite a success. It is also now the third world browser.
However, the choice of IBM stopped on Firefox. Why? The software:
- est extrêmement compatible avec les standards ouverts du web
- est open source et son développement assuré par une communauté qui n'est pas contrôlée par une entité commerciale
- est sécurisé
- propose des extensions qui peuvent être personnalisées par des organisations comme IBM
- est innovant et a forcé la main à la compétition pour s'améliorer
Source : Bob Sutor's blog (IBM Linux and open source responsible)
WebM in Firefox
The new open-source video codec appeared in a developer version of the browser
So far everyone was in agreement (except Apple) about Webm, the new codec from the open-source Google VP8. But the question of license (see elsewhere) had caused some problems for the beginning of its implementation in browsers.
These problems are now resolved and keeps his word and Mozilla Firefox integrating Webm 4.To be more precise, Mozilla includes support for this codec in a fairly unstable pre-release that can be found on the "nightly-builds", the ftp the latest development versions being updated daily by the foundation.
"If you are looking for videos Webm test, you can watch on YouTube Webm HTML5 experiement with the nightly builds, advises Chris Pearce, developers at Mozilla.There is still a little early to compare the performance videos of this version with those of Chrome (which he is also a version for developers) but is not essential.The important thing in this announcement is that the motion for adoption is indeed well underway.
Apple's side continues to support the H.264 and has not yet officially announced his intentions on Webm.
Source : Chris Pearce's post
WordPress Wins CMS Award
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.
This is pretty cool ^^
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