This is a good point. Perhaps this thing is way overblown. Chrome is simply joining firefox.... Both Firefox and Chrome would have to support H.264 for there to a world where the <video> tag will be useful.
So looks like we are just stuck with Flash to play our video indefinitely, but this really isn't a change. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:00 AM, phil swenson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Unless all the browsers start supporting WebM, won't the HTML 5 video tag > > will be useless? > > > Isn't this a true statement regarding h.264 as well? Firefox and > Opera have both stated they can/will not support them over the > royalties. (Highly possible I'm wrong on this.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
