Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5 [LWN.net]

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 6, 2009 21:30 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5 by drag
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

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

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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.