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Yes, I know all the cool kids these days are bashing Apple This gave Microsoft the wondrous opportunity to kick Mozilla in the butt without risking any lawsuit or bad publicity by being the only jerk to do so : all they had to do was to implement only H.264 as a default.

No standard solution for the video tag was envisionable anymore. Only recently, after discovering that Firefox had reached 30% market share in some places of the word, did they realize that IE was doomed anyway if they did not took the time to take it out of the stone age and make the first good release of IE in a while : the upcoming IE9.īy the time they were ready to implement the video tag, Apple had already made it a failure. Proper web standards are bad for them, since they mean the end of IE, and therefore less power in the desktop computing world for them. Microsoft’s situation is a bit different.Īt the time, they did not pretended to support the video tag at all. Where is Microsoft stating they’ll provide a WebM CODEC out of the box or as a free download for their ‘Media Foundation’? So yes, Apple are the ones to blame here, before everyone else. And because they are quite big in the mobile space, we can’t just leave them behind. The only reason Apple has, as of today, to only support H.264, is greed. The “no hw accelerated decoding” argument was lame from the beginning, since anyone with some GLSL skills could have corrected this, but now there’s hardware WebM decoders in production anyway. Now, WebM/VP8 is pretty much on par with H.264, or even a bit better, for the average guy’s eye, so this doesn’t hold anymore.

Well, they didn’t watch the average content of Youtube, but let’s admit that. Therefore, everything got stuck.Īt the time, people said that theora was not good enough for the web. Then they said that their browser would not support anything but H.264. Then Apple came and thought “oh no no no we have paid a lot for this silly codec and it pisses us off that everybody uploading a video does not owe us royalties”. This way, the video tag could be widely used, since people wouldn’t have to put two versions of each video on their website. Therefore, the optimal solution was obvious : include Theora, and then H.264 if you want. Everybody could include Ogg Theora, but not everybody could include H.264. As for ‘Apple bombed the codec situation’ – how did they do that?īrowser manufacturers had to include a codec in their web browser.

Silverlight 5 beta developer runtime for mac