Apple and Microsoft were never going to allow vp8 in the html spec. What Google should have done is press vp8 more on the web and not left Mozilla floating in t

Apple and Microsoft were never going to allow vp8 in the html spec. What Google should have done is press vp8 more on the web and not left Mozilla floating in the breeze. However, Google only purchased on2 in 2010, and hardware support has actually spread remarkably quickly for that amount of time, probably because they've been pushing it on Android. A bunch of current devices support hardware vp8 encode and decode and, in a year or so, it will likely be difficult to buy an android device without support.