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Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
snydeq writes "Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, Silverlight, and similar technologies. 'After an inordinate amount of discussions on the situation, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship,' HTML 5 editor Ian Hickson wrote to the whatwg mailing list. Apple, for its part, won't support Ogg Theora in QuickTime, expressing concerns over patents despite the fact that the codec can be used royalty-free. Opera and Mozilla oppose using H.264 due to licensing and distribution issues. Google has similar reservations, despite already using H.264 and Ogg Theora in Chrome. Microsoft has made no commitment to support <video>."
Why would be Theora included in the spec? it just plain sucks. Furthermore, is better to have multiple options to choose from. So, the solution is that broswers use the codecs already installed on the PC so they don't need to implement every codec out there.
Nah, unicorn farts are handled by IEEE RFC's. W3C has no control over that.
Yes, yes, just like those transparent PNG files I've heard so much about. Or that new CSS 2 thing. Any browser that doesn't support them will just fall by the wayside the moment a superior browser comes out.
The ultimate example is Emacs.
On the one hand, it's true that Emacs is lacking several important features, without which it really cannot be considered a proper, complete text editor ready for production use.
On the other hand, nothing else is even playing in the right ballpark.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
I know. Ctrl+s doesn't even save a file. Emacs is a great text editor, incremental search is cool and all, and I kinda understand why people rave about it, but come on people, without the ability to save the files you edit with it, it's just lacking the technology we've really come to expect in a modern editor.
Notepad, although its exuberant-ctags integration and psychoanalyst simulation features aren't quite there yet (Windows 8 wishlist???), saves and opens files like a champ. Open-source hackers could really take a hint from Microsoft and work on the essentials before adding more and more feature bloat.
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