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For a preview of how this approach would turn out for Mozilla, look at the H.264/WebM debacle. Mozilla refused to implement H.264 for a long time, but after Goo

For a preview of how this approach would turn out for Mozilla, look at the H.264/WebM debacle. Mozilla refused to implement H.264 for a long time, but after Google reneged on its promise to drop support, Mozilla finally caved to keep its userbase. I doubt they'd even try again, seeing as they've already seen this movie and know how it will end.

keeperofdakeys 13y ago
The main reason Mozilla didn't add H264 was because of royalties, which they couldn't pay. I don't know how much ideology was also behind the decision. Their solution was to use the OS to decode H.264, bypassing the need to implement the codec, and pay royalties. So I'm not sure how much of it was "caving", and how much was finally implementing the solution.