Microsoft Tips the Scale In Favor of HTML 5

aabelro writes "Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, has announced that IE9 will use only the H.264 standard to play HTML 5 video. Microsoft seems to have become very committed to HTML 5, while Flash loses even more ground. The announcement came the same day Steve Jobs detailed why Apple does not accept Flash on iPhone and iPad."

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so happy

[roman_mir]

I just had a tear I think, well somewhere on the inside of my mind... :)

finally, finally, man I hate Flash, I want everyone who used flash on their sites to suffer from this decision :) Sorry, just can't control my feelings of happiness right now :)

HTML5, here we go.

Re:wow

[metamatic]

Or, to look at it another way, Microsoft stay true to form and support proprietary standards which put open source competition at a disadvantage...

All Firefox needs to do is call the OS media framework for video decoding. There's no reason why the browser needs any codecs. They're just doing that out of a religious desire to push a format nobody wants or uses.