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H.264 support coming to FirefoxH.264 support coming to FirefoxPosted Mar 19, 2012 19:49 UTC (Mon) by Zizzle (guest, #67739)In reply to: H.264 support coming to Firefox by davide.del.vento Parent article: H.264 support coming to Firefox
Agreed. The argument is that H.264 is dominant.
Ok, how did that happen. Apple.
But there are far more Androids sold than iStuff.
So really it's down to google. They followed Apple, didn't do what they said they would with WebM.
The open web loses.
Google could transcode Youtube to WebM, drop H.264 in Chrome (no a big deal - still have the flash fallback), and start pushing Android handset makers to support HW WebM. Surely it would be cheaper for the handset maker too.
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H.264 support coming to Firefox Posted Mar 19, 2012 22:09 UTC (Mon) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
Yes, the real problem is that Google gave up on WebM. I have no idea why it did. It had a viable strategy, in part with Adobe, but never followed through. So H.264 wins, sadly for all of us.
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