[whatwg] Codecs (was Re: Apple Proposal for Timed Media Elements)

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Fri Mar 23 03:49:18 PDT 2007


* Christian F.K. Schaller wrote:
>All w3c standards are royalty free and there is no reason why this
>proposal should be different in that regard. And as Håkon Wium Lie
>pointed out in another email, the latest SVG standard already mandates
>Vorbis support, so half of what is needed is already specified in
>another major web standard.

Neither is true, there is no gurantee for the former, and the latter
would be more accurately characterized as, in 2004 there was a pro-
posal to mandate Vorbis support in a possible future SVG 1.2 "Full"
Recommendation.
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