David Gerard wrote:
> Greg Maxwell and I have been posting to the mailing list to push Ogg
> Theora. I mean, H.264 is technically marvellous and it'd be a lovely
> choice, but it's known patent encumbrances - and that MPEG-LA enforce
> them - make it *radioactive* for our purposes.
> 
> It's IMO futile pushing much harder on the list - Hixie's the editor,
> it's his decision, he's an honorable fellow and he's decided he really
> can't honestly put Ogg Theora in the spec at present. So it goes back
> to pushing Ogg Theora as the de facto format for the web.
> 
> 
> - d.

I also followed that. It's sad to look at Apple's position.
Do you know what's the state about IE? (not from MS, but I suppose
someone will be doing/have made some IE plugin)



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