Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 21, 2009 @04:34AM from the is-that-your-final-answer dept.

AberBeta writes with this excerpt from OSNews: "We're on the verge of a serious evolution on the web. Right now, the common way to include video on the web is by use of Flash, a closed-source technology. The answer to this 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 standardize the web. 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. 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 not to use JavaScript for HTML video."

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Re:Plugins are Still the Answer by phantomcircuit · 2009-06-21 07:12 · Score: 1, Redundant

That is ignoring the basic problem though. There are many video formats. Does it make any sense that the browser only supports a single one as firefox 3.5 is doing?