Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
We think your reasons are strong and worthy of respect. That is why we
are not trying to force our codec preference on you, but rather propose
to leave this issue open. We ask you to respect our reasons as well,
rather than trying to force us to go along with your codec preference.
If there is no baseline codec in the specification, I firmly believe
that one of the following will happen:
* Everyone will end up implementing whatever Microsoft implements.
* Microsoft won't implement <video> anyway, so no-one will use it.
In practice, everyone's just mimicking whatever Microsoft does. At least
when they violate the spec they can be called on it; if what they do is
allowable by the spec, then everyone will have to copy it or they'll
have a useless browser.
