prumek

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1. 31.▲
   by prumek 15y ago

   > their poor rendering engine That's an rather misleading and ignorant thing to say.
2. 32.▲
   by prumek 16y ago

   H264 is a closed format owned by an industry cartel. Webm is an open format owned by an open-source project. The web ALWAYS needs to choose open over everything else, because that's the whole foundation of the web. You want people to create
3. 33.▲
   by prumek 16y ago

   Most hardware will soon have webm support. All future Android devices, for example.
4. 34.▲
   by prumek 16y ago

   It's not a rant. It cleanly refutes the Ars Technica article. No rebuttal was really needed because most of the AT article was a red herring. The question is about openness, and h264 fails at that.
5. 35.▲
   by prumek 16y ago

   > IE6 is a browser not a standard. Look up "de facto standard" please.