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Good stuff, the most fair coverage I've read on this. Because there has been no actual withdrawal timetable announced, I wonder if the Chrome Team is waiting f
by luigi 16y ago
Good stuff, the most fair coverage I've read on this.
Because there has been no actual withdrawal timetable announced, I wonder if the Chrome Team is waiting for the moment when it will least hurt their users: full WebM support in YouTube or something like that.
I think the Chrome team can claim ideological consistency because they only support closed technologies through plugins. Flash, Quicktime, Java, and PDF are all supported through plugins. The Chrome team is making the statement that H.264 doesn't belong on the open web, and that's why they're removing first class support for it.
- watty 16y agoHow does it hurt their users? This is saving Google money and promoting their encoder. Chrome users can still view H.264 in the browser without having to download anything extra (through bundled Flash).
- vetinari 16y agoMost fair coverage? You must be joking. His opinion "If you don't agree with me, your view is ideological" is stated 6 times. I don't see how you can call this article even approaching to be fair.
- KuraFire 16y agoI think you should re-read it and read more carefully, this time. All mentions of ideological are w.r.t. what your considerations are for choosing which video codec to use, and have nothing to do with whether or not you agree with the piece itself or the opinions stated within.