[whatwg] OGG in HTML5
Geoffrey Sneddon
foolistbar at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 11 12:36:31 PST 2007
On 11 Dec 2007, at 20:21, SA Alfonso Baqueiro wrote:
> well, I think that ENFORCING is the way the real life works, is the
> case of
> windows, it is used because the hardware vendors enforce us to use it
> installing it by default, is the case of the mp3, is the case of any
> file
> format, is the case of swf, and is the case of wma, people use all
> that crap
> because they are enforced, I think is very positive that when we
> create
> something, if it is pretty useful we have the power to enforce is
> use, for
> the good, and is ok, HTML5 should enforce OGG as a supported format,
> IT IS
> GOOD FOR EVERYONE, only look at what happened with the PNG, is now
> wide
> accepted over GIF.
PNG did not succeed by being enforced: it never was enforced. It
succeeded purely on its technical merits.
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Geoffrey Sneddon
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