I think this article overlooks the fact that outsourcing media playback to environment specific codecs (WM9/VLC/etc) has been around for ages. by the time html

I think this article overlooks the fact that outsourcing media playback to environment specific codecs (WM9/VLC/etc) has been around for ages. by the time html5 video is widespread each user will likely have several media plugins installed willing to play h264 video for them in any browser. I'm talking about quicktime, realplayer, vlc, and windows media, among others - This is SO not a big deal