Jun 30, 2009
New Firefox “Goodness Inside”
Today marks the official release of Mozilla’s latest release of Firefox, now at version 3.5 in all assorted flavors.
A few of my favorite additions
Support for Open Video and Audio. “3.5 delivers the first native integration of audio and video directly into the browser.” Which mean’s less need for plug-ins and more support for HTML5. Woohoo!
As with Safari, FF 3.5 also enabled (now by default) support for color correction for tagged images. So the images you shoot and / or whip up in Photoshop and post, if tagged with an ICC profile and saved as jpg or png, can be color corrected by FF 3.5. Now all I need is that new monitor and calibration software I’ve been eyeing up.
With the release of 3.5 new web technologies are also being pushed into existence, such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, and SVG transforms.
Life might be grand one day if other browsers catch up. None-the-less, hoorah for the Mozilla team (and others) for pushing us all in the right direction!
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