- From: David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:38:04 +0100
On 01/04/2008, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote: > Robert J Crisler wrote: > > From my perspective, and for what it's worth, I doubt that > > the ideals of the W3C as expressed in 3.12.7.1 <http://3.12.7.1> would > > result in a situation that would be superior to simply letting the > > international standards body for audio and video codecs deal with these > > technological areas. > Your plan would, at least, prevent the "standard" codec being supported > on Free operating systems. Meeting 3.12.7.1 as it stands would not > prevent this. Therefore, it would be a superior situation. The actual solution is a large amount of compelling content in Theora or similar. Wikimedia is working on this, though we're presently hampered by a severe lack of money for infrastructure and are unlikely to have enough in time for FF3/Webkit/HTML5. - d.
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