Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

If all the non-Microsoft browser vendors decided to work together in order to create compelling new technologies that offer clear benefits over IE, I am convinced they could significantly speed up the rate at which IE:s dominance eroded. Instead, two of the smaller vendors keep insisting that the only acceptable codec is one that they know fully well the largest of the non-Microsoft vendors simply can not legally implement, no matter if they want to or not.

I see the political and technical reasons why Apple and Google prefer h.264, but their failure to see the bigger picture, and how much more they have to lose than they have to gain is disappointing.