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Without solidarity of video format across browsers, Flash will still hold the embedded video market in browsers. Not to mention like all the other open standar
by crad 17y ago
Without solidarity of video format across browsers, Flash will still hold the embedded video market in browsers. Not to mention like all the other open standards, until Microsoft works out a way to get users to their most current browsers AND makes them fully HTML5 compatible, Flash (and Silverlight) will have a non-replaceable happy home in a majority of the browsers.
- jws 17y agoI don't see solidarity of video format coming. People with deep pockets are uncomfortable with the Ogg family and the unknown risks of litigation. People who do not wish to open their pockets won't license the MPEG portfolio. My solution: The MPEG group should license their portfolio for free for HTML5 browsers. That will cement them as "the" format and they can recover their research costs and make their profit on licenses for devices and nonbrowser software. (Thought I can only imagine how many lawyer hours it will take to arrive at a suitable definition of an "HTML5 browser".)
- GHFigs 17y agoThe MPEG group should license their portfolio for free for HTML5 browsers. That will cement them as "the" format This is akin to the faux pas of asking someone to work for free because it would look good on their resume or in their portfolio. It would only be plausible if h.264 weren't already very successful.