[whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the <video> element

[Robert O'Callahan]

On 6/28/07, Nicholas Shanks <contact at nickshanks.com> wrote:
>
> For your future reference, Robert, the browsers I am familiar with and was
> referring to in my statement about image decoders are WebKit-based browsers,
> OmniWeb 4.5 (historically), Camino and iCab 3. I avoid FireFox and Opera
> due to their non-native interfaces and form controls.Given your statement
> I may be incorrect about Camino though.
>

You are.

If we're going to make sweeping statements about how browsers work, let's
make sure we include IE, Firefox and Opera in our data.

> We use official Ogg Theora libraries.
> No-one's suggesting reimplementing codecs. We're talking about integrating
> existing codecs into the browser, and shipping them with the browser.
>
> This is only possible if the codec is free. I thought we were talking
> about the problem of adding non-free codecs (namely WMV and MPEG4) to free
> software, (possibly also involving reverse-engineering the codec).
>

No-one's suggesting that. As Maik points out, reverse engineering is a dead
end. Shipping a binary codec with, say, Firefox is a theoretical
possibility, but for many reasons it's very unlikely to happen.

Rob
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Simon replied, "I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled." "You
have judged correctly," Jesus said. [Luke 7:41-43]
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