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Microsoft? HTML standards? Dream on...

Posted Jul 6, 2009 23:36 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5 by flewellyn
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Microsoft does what it wants and when it wants. Sometimes documentation drop occurs and is called "standard" (if you are lucky it'll be even "international standard"). Since it's impossible to have any dialog with Microsoft about standards it's useless to even wait for their offers. Better to treat world like it is: Microsoft on the one side (necessary evil so unavoidable - but the less you use it the better) and everyone else on the other side (where there are small hope of consesus).


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Microsoft? HTML standards? Dream on...

Posted Jul 6, 2009 23:55 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Had Microsoft gone along, and had Apple been the only holdout, my guess is Ogg would have stayed in.

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