Offered Without Comment

July 28th, 2009

Dan Connolly: “…I don’t see any argument that would convince a critical mass of the WG/market to support it in the near/medium term, so I wonder if pursuing is a good use of WG time.”

3 Responses to “Offered Without Comment”

  1. Simon Says:

    It’s quite impressive, the history of the video tag. Vendors can come to agreement that it’s a good idea, implement the tag consistently – and yet still have it completely useless because they haven’t decided on one common codec that they all could use…

  2. Benjamin Otte Says:

    I guess you have considered something like “browsers implementing SHOULD support both the H264 and OGG formats, but MUST support at least one of them”?

    That would give us 2 baseline codecs, which is oviously worse than one, but seems to have a higher chance of uptake?

  3. voracity Says:

    Has Ogg Vorbis for audio been accepted yet, at least?