Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Jul 2009 22:03 UTC
Time for another Week in Review. We had a fairly regular week this week, with the focus somehow being Mac cloners, The Pirate Bay, Mono, and Browsers were also in the spotlight this week with the release of Firefox 3.5, disagreements on the video tag codec, and talking about KHTML.
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Member since:2006-11-09
Whether Apple supported ogg wouldn't matter, if IE would suddenly support ogg. You bet Apple would follow suit and implement it, if that happened, they can't be left behind. So please do keep things in relation here.
He can't help it... he's the equivalent of Fox News in the United States... completely off-base.
Chances of Microsoft actually supporting an open codec is less than that of an unbiased opinion from some of the folks who frequent this site. (read: Microsoft would never support a non-Microsoft technology even if it would improve interoperability... remember their implementation of their own PDF-killer?)
Kelly
Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:2005-06-29
Keyword: mostly.
Yes, it failed mostly because of Apple. Had Apple implemented Theora, then every web developers would only need a single Theora file to cover ALL HTML5-capable browsers. It is ONLY because of Apple that developers now have to encode TWO files, just to please Apple.
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2005-07-06
Speaking of HTML5 - browser maker were unable to settle on a codec for the video tag, mostly because Apple refuses to implement support for Ogg Theora,
While I think Apple stance on this issue is really stupid, saying that it failed because of Apple is, to put it mildly, utterly absurd.
Firefox has a bigger Market Share than Safari now, and if anyone is hindering the video tag from being widely accepted it's Microsoft who don't even give a sh*t about HTML5 at all.
Whether Apple supported ogg wouldn't matter, if IE would suddenly support ogg. You bet Apple would follow suit and implement it, if that happened, they can't be left behind. So please do keep things in relation here.