- From: Conan Kudo <ngompa13@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 15:51:20 -0500
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan at ubuntu.com>wrote: > > Internet Explorer 9 will not support VP8 unless the user manually > > installs the codec. This puts it at the same level of support as > > Safari has for Theora, as far as I know. So even if we assume every > > user upgraded to the latest alphas of the browser they used, H.264 is > > supported by about 65% of users' browsers, and VP8 by about 40%. Of > > course, in reality, less than half of users' browsers support <video> > > at all right now, and given IE uptake rates, that's only going to > > change slowly. > > For windows maybe there should be a .exe/.msi with the entire package of > VP8+Theora+Vorbis or just VP8+Vorbis to make it easier to install but > adoption isnt really our issue thats Microsoft's issue if WebM takes > off. I dont foresee it being any harder than Adobe Flash to install for > the regular user so websites could just direct users to the download if > they dont have it already. > > Oh and IE is dropping in use according to the media over the past 3 > months ever since the browser selection screen came so its becoming less > of an issue in time. > > --fagan > > The marketshare drop has been very small, about a percentage point a month. And Ian and other people in WHATWG made it our issue if Microsoft or Apple doesn't fully adopt WebM. He made it clear that unless all the browser vendors adopted a video format, it would never be specified in the spec as the baseline format to support. We do need a baseline format in the spec. Supporting video will be difficult unless content providers can be certain that a single format will be supported across the board.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100705/0489fbe8/attachment.htm>
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