Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

by kungfudoi • 17 years ago

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DXL• 17 years ago

"I considered requiring Ogg Theora support in the spec, since we do have three implementations that are willing to implement it, but it wouldn't help get us true interoperabiliy, since the people who are willing to implement it are willing to do so regardless of the spec, and the people who aren't are not going to be swayed by what the spec says. "

That appears to be the permanent fate of the World Wide Web Consortium and its specs, unfortunately.

halo2• 17 years ago

The permanent fate of any specification is down to whether people are willing to implement it.

Whatsmore, the original intention of the W3C wasn't as a dictator to companies as to what to implement - the use of the term "recommendation" rather than "standard" is very much deliberate.

jrockway• 17 years ago

Right, but if the recommendations are just ignored, how are they relevant?

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

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