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Can't we just all settle for .webm? This debate is partly why the web is overrun with enormous animated GIFs. It seems pretty clear that webm isn't going to b
by personZ 12y ago
Can't we just all settle for .webm?
This debate is partly why the web is overrun with enormous animated GIFs.
It seems pretty clear that webm isn't going to be widely supported. Time to move on.
- GhotiFish 12y agoMove on to what? The annihilation of firefox through a cheap licensing move?
- personZ 12y agoFirefox supports MP4, and they changed their position two years ago when Google and Adobe weren't as all in as they claimed to be. Further through an appropriate media plugins that browser should support anything the platform supports, and it was pure dogma that had it refuse early on. Apple is never going to support WebM. This kills the format. There are hundreds of millions of devices that can hardware decode MPEG4 than can't for WebM. Nay, billions of devices. Of course WebM is always just around the corner, but this has just led to a stagnation where the scourge of animated GIFs reigned supreme.
- GhotiFish 12y agowell mp5 is right around the corner as well. Out of curiosity, what do you think the world is going to do when it's confronted with the choice between pushing out open source competitors or letting them in?
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- chanux 12y agoFirefox/OS X uses codecs from Apple NO
- andoriyu 12y agoHow dare you.