- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:32:42 +1000
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Robert O'Callahan<robert at ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> >> For that to happen there has to be >> some demand for Theora support, though, which the spec's can't generate. > > Specs do generate demand --- by creating author expectation that a feature > will be supported, by adding a well-known brand, and because test suites get > created which vendors then compete on. I agree: standards generate demand. It is how h.264 hardware support originated - by making it a ISO standard, the vendors knew there would be sufficient market demand for it and created the chips. Silvia.
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