Ian Hickson said he is reluctantly dropping the codecs subsections in the HTML5. By doing so, we are not building a standards, instead we are trying to play nice. This is totally wrong. The specification should look a head and provide a open implementation. Since, the majority of the player agreeing upon Ogg Theora and since Ogg is a open standard container, it should be adopted in the specification. By doing so, there are couple of benefits in the long run.
- Apple can adapt its hardware for Ogg support.
- Ogg Theora can improve.
As Ian Hickson pointed out the options and possibility of including ogg/H.264 in the future.
But the codec should be included in the final specification, otherwise, we will end up with the same situation we have for <img> with no specifics.
July 7, 2009
HTML 5
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