John Slater and Tara Shahain have been working on developing a new and improved style guide for the Firefox logo. The goal is to refine the existing guidelines and to get those communicated out to the widest possible audience. As part of this project, John and Tara gave a talk at the recent Firefox Plus Summit, and have started working with the Royal Order on creating the guide. They also very much want to keep the process as open as possible, so John will be blogging about various topics for discussion over the next few weeks. Additionally, they have assembled an informal advisory panel for the project, drawing upon the expertise and experience of several veteran members of the Mozilla contributor community. For more information, including a list of the people who are on the advisory panel, see John’s blog post.

It was announced at the Mozilla Summit that Firefox will include native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements. Chris Double writes, “The backend has been committed to the main Mozilla source code and is enabled by default. You can download nightly builds and test it out. An example of a live site that uses <video> is the Wikimedia video archive. This original commit is a work in progress. There are unimplemented bits, bugs, etc that need to be sorted out. But it’s a start towards using a common codec across all platforms and will improve as we get towards the 3.1 release.”