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byjonnyj ( 1011131 ) writes:
Vendors never actually mean what they say. Here are the real reasons:
Apple won't support a codec that's incompatible with its huge installed base of ipods and iphones. They don't care about royalty fees because most Safari users pay for an OS X licence, and they want the free browsers to look sub-par compared with theirs.
Microsoft won't support a codec that makes the web more reliable for non-Windows users - especially Linux users. They don't care about royalty fees because all IE users pay for a WIndows
bysocrplayr813 ( 1372733 ) writes:
True, most of them probably don't care much about users. However, the stance of Apple and Microsoft in your post clearly is clearly negative for developers and users because it locks everybody into paying them. Google, Opera, and Mozilla, while they don't necessarily actively HELP users, they're not actively hurting them either.
I'm not normally the 'rah rah open source' type, but the way you present that, one of the choices is clearly better.
All that said, I think it's just fine to remove codecs from the standard. At least the way I understand things, they're keeping the audio and video tags and giving people a choice of codecs. Firefox is too big to ignore now, so most major sites will support them. Similarly, they can't ignore Microsoft or Apple, so everyone gets supported, people actually follow the standard, and we're hopefully all able to enjoy our new audio/video content.
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byEvanED ( 569694 ) writes:
Firefox is too big to ignore now, so most major sites will support them.
Yeah, but the question is whether they'll support them with the video tag, or do something like what YouTube is doing (and I suspect will continue to do for some time) and support it with Flash apps. And if a site as big as YouTube is going to continue to feed Flash to Firefox, almost everyone will continue to have it around, and the video tag hasn't really won us all that much.
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