- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:31:27 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Sam Kuper wrote: > 2009/7/5 Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Eric Flores wrote: > > [...] > > > On the other side, I'm firmly convinced that some vested interest could > > > lobby and even pay the chipmakers for having them not adding support to Ogg. > > > This is a free market, isn't it? > > > > As you say, it's a free market. If people want Theora chips, then it's > > likely that they will become available. For that to happen there has to be > > some demand for Theora support, though, which the spec's can't generate. > > I think that if Theora support is recommended in HTML5, this *will* > generate demand, since content producers and (most) browser vendors > alike will take advantage of it. Chips may well, in that scenario, > become available. Most browser vendors are already implementing Theora, and content producers will use whatever the browser vendors support, regardless of whether it's in the spec or not. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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