This week at LWN: Specifying codecs for the web

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 22, 2007 11:11 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Jake Edge
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Audio and video content are increasingly important components of the World Wide Web, which some of us remember, initially, as a text-only experience. Users of free software need not be told that the multimedia aspect of the net can be hard to access without recourse to proprietary tools. So the decisions which are made regarding multimedia support in the next version of the HTML specification are of more than passing interest. A current dispute over the recommended codecs for HTML5 shows just how hard maintaining an interoperable web may be.

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