HTML 5 drops open source video codec

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 6, 2009 4:37 AM EDT
ZDNet Asia; By Davis Meyer
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HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning Web-coding standard has announced. Ian Hickson wrote last week that he was reluctantly dropping the open standard due to opposition from Apple and said the rival H.264 codec could also not be specified due to opposition from other browser vendors. This means HTML 5 will not specify a single codec for Web development.

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Does HTML5 die here? chalbersma 6 1,751 Jul 6, 2009 1:09 PM

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