Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web [LWN.net]

Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Posted Jan 25, 2010 21:56 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web by danpb
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

"Currently the options for consuming/publishing video on web pages are Flash
plugin, Java plugin or HTML5 video."

There's one other option: Silverlight. Which has its own complications, and
as far as I can tell video-capable Silverlight just is not playable on Linux
(Moonlight doesn't get to implement those closed codecs). Netflix is the
major user of Silverlight video, but I've run into a couple others in the
wild too.

I'm concerned that this HTML5 video dispute may somehow help Silverlight.

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