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== August 5th, 2019 ==
* '''Surveying Developers''' -- Three weeks ago our Developer Relations team launched the first edition of the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/mdn-web-developer-designer-survey/ MDN Developer and Designer Survey], hoping web developers and designers would be willing to spend a few minutes telling us about their needs and frustrations with the web. We have over 15,000 responses so far and, because the results will be shared with Google, Microsoft, Samsung and others, they’re actively helping us encourage folks to take part. If you create sites or services using HTML, CSS and/or JavaScript, please consider [https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/Developer-Needs-Assessment-2019 filling out the survey] and helping us move the web forward.
* '''Mile High Video''' -- Last week Mozilla [https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1156612202423623681 caught the attention] of the broadcast industry with a live encoding and streaming demo of AV1 into all four major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Safari) at the Mile High Video workshop sponsored by Comcast and NBCUniversal. For Firefox (x86 and ARM), Chrome and Edge (dev build w/ Chromium) this was easy since AV1 is natively supported with the [https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d dav1d] decoder. In Safari, which has no AV1 support, real-time play back was achieved using a WASM build of dav1d! Try it yourself [http://media-streaming.wmflabs.org/clean/av1-hls/ here]! This marks a major milestone for video on the web and is particularly important to broadcasters who primarily ship H.264 (in significant and growing amounts), as our own Nathan Egge [https://xiph.org/~negge/MHV2019.pdf described] to the industry heavyweights in attendance.
== July 29th, 2019 ==
