"Firefox is a dominant web browser. Nice that Apple, a MPEG LA member, supports h264 though" Internet Explorer is the dominant web browser, whether we like it

"Firefox is a dominant web browser. Nice that Apple, a MPEG LA member, supports h264 though" Internet Explorer is the dominant web browser, whether we like it or not. Microsoft is a MPEG-LA member, and IE9 will have support for h.264 in <video> containers. Adobe is a AVC/h.264 licensee, and mostly because of Flash support and Adobe's content creation tools, the majority of video on the web is encoded using h.264. Chrome, Firefox and Opera have a combined global market share of 46%, IE and Safari have 52% combined, so it can go either way. What's going to be important is if, and how soon all major mobile OSes and GPUs will support WebM. Apple and Microsoft are unlikely to support WebM, so count iOS and Windows Phone out. Google will surely try to make it work on Android, even though most phones won't have hardware accelaration for it. RIM and Nokia remain wildcards, but most of their informed smartphone users use Opera anyways, which I imagine will support WebM.