- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:03:40 +0800
On Thu, 20 May 2010 17:55:42 +0800, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/5/20 Peter Beverloo <peter at lvp-media.com>: > >> Microsoft has announced playback support for VP8 in Internet Explorer >> 9[1] >> under the condition that one has to install a VP8 codec manually, >> albeit via >> inclusion in another program: "In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support >> playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user has >> installed a >> VP8 codec on Windows." >> I think that's fairly significant. > > > I don't. They're trying to make "if you install it yourself, it'll > work" look like they're actually doing anything at all. But they're > not, because the same applies already to Vorbis and Theora. If > anything, they're just offering not to deliberately stop it from > working. That is unfair. While I don't know precisely what the IE team is doing, hooking up things like canPlayType to give the correct reply depending on what is installed doesn't happen automatically. -- Philip J?genstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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