- From: Peter Beverloo <peter@lvp-media.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:14:48 +0200
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:55, 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. > > > - d. > Microsoft showing interest in a codec they're not specifically participating in, different from their involvement in H264, is a good start. In their revised comments about HTML 5 video[1] they already stated that they would consider implementing other codecs if the "industry reaches a consensus and is confident that the uncertainties are resolved". Their wording in the recent blog-post refers to "an industry" announcement rather than "a Google announcement", which is why I think it's plausible to assume including the codec by default will be, partially, dependent on Apple's stance on it. As Philip already said, right now there simply are a number of uncertainties limiting the discussion to mere speculation. Let's hope more clearity will be available soon. Peter [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/05/03/follow-up-on-html5-video-in-ie9.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100520/f7192d44/attachment-0001.htm>
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