- From: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:16:34 +0100
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > We think your reasons are strong and worthy of respect. That is why we > are not trying to force our codec preference on you, but rather propose > to leave this issue open. We ask you to respect our reasons as well, > rather than trying to force us to go along with your codec preference. > If there is no baseline codec in the specification, I firmly believe that one of the following will happen: * Everyone will end up implementing whatever Microsoft implements. * Microsoft won't implement <video> anyway, so no-one will use it. In practice, everyone's just mimicking whatever Microsoft does. At least when they violate the spec they can be called on it; if what they do is allowable by the spec, then everyone will have to copy it or they'll have a useless browser.
Received on Friday, 30 March 2007 16:16:34 UTC