- From: Andrew Harris <harrisaw@vcu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:15:36 -0500
You all have garnered quite the attention over removing Ogg Vorbis/Theora as a recommended audio/video codec in HTML5. Just a reminder: the rest of the Internet is watching, and is hoping with all its heart that you do the Right Thing here. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251 http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/2045200 They (we?) also seem to think you have done the world quite the injustice in bending to corporate fears over submarines. It's the fault of the vendors for not fully researching their own codecs, before putting millions of dollars and man-hours behind implementing such. Vorbis and Theora seem to be the safest options in avoiding such things. And they're still technologically competitive! Specify an open format as your recommendation (or specify simply that the format simply MUST BE an open format!), and let the vendors implement it thusly. Don't buy into the FUD - it's a sign of malicious laziness and/or outright subversion, on the part of your corporate interests. -Andrew Harris http://andrewharris.org/
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