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Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rally-behind-the-big-dog dept.

An anonymous reader follows up to yesterday's Google announcement that they would drop H.264 support from Chrome. "Thomas Ford, Senior Communications Manager, Opera, told Muktware, 'Actually, Opera has never supported H.264. We have always chosen to support open formats like Ogg Theora and WebM. In fact, Opera was the first company to propose the tag, and when we did, we did it with Ogg. Simply put, we welcome Google's decision to rely on open codecs for HTML5 video.'"

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  1. No news here. by Quick+Reply · · Score: 0, Troll

    Opera are against everything and everyone, while their actual market share consists only of a hardcore minority. In other words, nobody from the real world actually cares what Opera think, and there is no news here.

  2. I wish.. by js3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wish software developers would stop playing politics with software and just deliver products that work

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    did you forget to take your meds?