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Examining the HTML 5 Video Codec Debate
Ars Technica has a great breakdown of the codec debate for the HTML 5 video element. Support for the new video element seems to be split into two main camps, Ogg Theora and H.264, and the inability to find a solution has HTML 5 spec editor Ian Hickson throwing in the towel. "Hickson outlined the positions of each major browser vendor and explained how the present impasse will influence the HTML 5 standard. Apple and Google favor H.264 while Mozilla and Opera favor Ogg Theora. Google intends to ship its browser with support for both codecs, which means that Apple is the only vendor that will not be supporting Ogg. 'After an inordinate amount of discussions, both in public and privately, on the situation regarding codecs for and in HTML5, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship,' Hickson wrote. 'I have therefore removed the two subsections in the HTML5 spec in which codecs would have been required, and have instead left the matter undefined.'"
Letting the Federal Reserve and Congress decide the winners and losers really isn't a free market system. Having central planning of money since 1913 hasn't helped much either.
Privatizing profits and socializing losses (of your friends) isn't capitalism, it is piracy.
Keep spouting the idiocy you hear on TV every night, its cute.
And how big markedshare in the "show HTML5 content" does this gives them?
I'm glad you don't have moderator points, because there is no +1 I agree.