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Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Posted Jan 28, 2010 20:31 UTC (Thu) by DonDiego (guest, #24141)
In reply to: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web by roc
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

> > Making it difficult for users to add H.264 support is a antifeature. They
> > are intentionally making their program do things most people don't want
> > it to do in order to forward a specific political viewpoint.

> Not at all. Integrating an H.264 codec, or integrating support for various
> system codec frameworks, are features that we have chosen to not add,
> features that would require major engineering effort to create and
> support, given we need faithful adherence to the HTML5 spec. If you don't
> believe this, you can take the Firefox source and show us how easy it is.

But you are already working on a gstreamer backend for fennec (embedded Firefox)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422540

What gives?


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