I am completely opposed to web standards including proprietary codecs h.264 is not in the HTML5 standard and nobody is trying to get it put there. The reason i

I am completely opposed to web standards including proprietary codecs h.264 is not in the HTML5 standard and nobody is trying to get it put there. The reason it is a hot topic is that it is what people are actually using, not because of web standards. HTML5 should have Theora (or some other open gratis and libre codec) as the standard which all browsers wishing to be HTML5 compliant must be able to handle The point of the spec is to document what is shared in common across browsers. Mandating something that was not going to be shared in common would have turned the spec into a work of fiction.