Linked by Adam S on Fri 11th Jul 2008 04:37 UTC, submitted by peskypescado
A recent post about Firefox and my general view of corporations and organizations has caused a bit of a stir. It even caught the attention of Asa Dotzler. He said "It's really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they're actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight." But are they really subverting it? Where exactly is the line between serving the consumer and subverting the web? I think the W3C should share in this blame.
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Theora is ALREADY outdated and there is absolutely no need for it.
It's not supposed to be better than all others, it's just supposed to be open enough and good enough to be a last resort fallback that you can guarantee will work on every browser on almost every device. Right now, your only fallback option for video to work on most browsers is ancient MPEG, and that's not even guaranteed. Going with Theora would not be the best solution for hi-def movies, but AT LEAST you'd know you could serve video to everyone on every device that implemented HTML5.
By having no standardized codec at all, we are in exactly the same situation than we are now with hoping people have or will download a plugin to play our content... Or we can just do it in flash and hope that works (Not for you iPhone users).
Having Theora as a standard does not preclude you from using a better codec as the first choice.
Edited 2008-07-11 21:10 UTC