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While this in and of itself is a good idea, the implementation is bad, as it uses JavaScript. The blog post by Mozilla is supposed to provide a method for website owners to use open video, but still allow browsers that do not support it to fall back to using Flash video.

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( Update The letter has been mirrored in the article, Read More for the full text) Note that Kroc’s website may not work properly in Internet Explorer. Kroc Camen, OSNews editor, is very involved in making/keeping the web open, and has written an open letter to Mozilla in which he urges them to not use JavaScript for HTML video. Sadly, not even Mozilla itself really seems to understand what it is supposed to do with the video tag, and actually advocates the use of JavaScript to implement it. The answer is the HTML5 video tag, which allows you to embed video into HTML pages without the use of Flash or any other non-HTML technology combined with open video codecs, this could provide the perfect opportunity to further open up and standardise the web. Right now, the common way to include video on the web is by use of Flash, a closed-source technology that is a massive resource hog. We’re on the verge of a serious evolution on the web.