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An unfortunate description

An unfortunate description

Posted Mar 16, 2012 12:07 UTC (Fri) by ekj (guest, #1524)
In reply to: An unfortunate description by khim
Parent article: Idealism vs. pragmatism: Mozilla debates supporting H.264 video playback (ars technica)

But that's mostly a question of wording. "Download h264 codecs from here to make Firefox play those movies" might get you into trouble.

But: "Firefox will play any movie for which your system has the appropriate codecs installed." will definitely not. (it's just a statement of fact, and it doesn't have anything to do with h264 or any other specific codec, it's a general mechanism.)


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