[whatwg] Reasons for moving Ogg to MUST status (was Re: HTML 5, OGG, competition, civil rights, and persons with disabilities)

[David Gerard]

On 13/12/2007, Andrew Sidwell <takkaria at gmail.com> wrote:
> Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:

> > This is not the year 2000. Mozilla and Opera are embedding Theora video.
> > That's a user base large enough to force the rest of the players to get with
> > the program.

> I very much doubt it.  IE at least would have to support it before a
> majority of authors would use it seriously.


IE can't really be a serious consideration here - if HTML standards
had to wait on IE adopting them, this list might as well shut down
now.


- d.