Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5 [LWN.net]

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 6, 2009 21:01 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333)
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Screw Apple. What a bunch of jackasses. There is no reason why they couldn't of easily added Ogg support to Safari except that they wanted the Ogg support to die.

Everybody else and their mom supported Ogg Theora/Vorbis. Opera, Google, Mozilla, etc.

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Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 6, 2009 21:30 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] (3 responses)

Microsoft hasn't said anything, either, so we can assume they don't plan to implement Ogg (or H.264, for that matter).

Microsoft? HTML standards? Dream on...

Posted Jul 6, 2009 23:36 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

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).

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.

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 7, 2009 0:28 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Well microsoft has choosen not to participate at all, for the most part. So really they have forced their own irrelevance.

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 8, 2009 17:30 UTC (Wed) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

>Screw Apple. What a bunch of jackasses. There is no reason why they couldn't of easily added Ogg support to Safari except that they wanted the Ogg support to die.<

Very well put if Apple dont want to conform screw them (it's about time they got crapped on anyhow) they got no interest in anything they cant make money out of and using a free codec just aint pleasing old S .Jobbs bank manager screw em

Pete