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Google Funds Ogg Theora For Mobile

Posted by Soulskill on from the swinging-for-the-fences dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has decided to fund the development of Theora optimized for ARM processors. The article on the Open Source at Google blog notes the importance of having a universal baseline video codec for the Web: 'What is clear though, is that we need a baseline to work from — one standard format that (if all else fails) everything can fall back to. This doesn't need to be the most complex format, or the most advertised format, or even the format with the most companies involved in its creation. All it needs to do is to be available, everywhere. The codec in the frame for this is Ogg Theora, a spin off of the VP3 codec released into the wild by On2 a couple of years ago.'"

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    A decade from now, we'll look back and see WHATWG as the worst thing to have happened to the Web in years. Much worse than IE6, even.

    HTML5 is shit, no matter how you look at it. From a technical standpoint, it's rubbish. Many of its new elements have gone out of their way to bring back the combination of presentation and content that we've tried to get rid of for over 15 years now. Others, like canvas, encourage JavaScript to be used more than it ever should be. Furthermore, the audio and video playback will end up as the next-generation marquee or blink element; annoying, misused and hated by all.

    HTML5 has been nothing but a toilet for companies like Google, Apple, Mozilla (yes, they're a commercial entity as much as any other these days), Adobe and Microsoft to defecate in. Instead of putting an emphasis on quality technology and a good user experience, they're going to bring a web littered with terrible JavaScript-based "apps", audio and video support that'll end up being used mainly for annoying advertisements, mixed presentation and content thanks to tags like header and footer, along with numerous other problems.

    What's worst of all, though, is that XHTML, XForms and other sensible standards are being discarded for something so much worse. Then again, this is exactly what we should expect from web developers. They're not interested in quality or technical superiority, but merely throwing out some shit and calling it a day.