> > *HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google > employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced.* > > Ian Hickson wrote on > Monday<http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html>that > he was reluctantly dropping the open standard due to opposition from > Apple, and said the rival H.264 codec could also not be specified due to > opposition from other browser vendors. This means HTML 5 will not specify a > single codec for web development. > > One of the key features of HTML 5 is its native handling of rich media such > as video and audio through the and tags, which mean web developers do not > have to rely on proprietary > products<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39655473,00.htm>such > as Adobe's Flash or Microsoft's Silverlight. > > However, "there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to > implement and ship", Hickson wrote on the website of the Web Hypertext > Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group, the coalition of companies > working to develop HTML 5. > > "I have therefore removed the two subsections in the HTML 5 spec in which > codecs would have been required, and have instead left the matter undefined, > as has in the past been done with other features like IMG and image formats, > and plugin APIs, or web fonts and font formats," Hickson wrote. > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-318208.html
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