[whatwg] Chipset support is a good argument

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Robert O'Callahan<robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>>
>> For that to happen there has to be
>> some demand for Theora support, though, which the spec's can't generate.
>
> Specs do generate demand --- by creating author expectation that a feature
> will be supported, by adding a well-known brand, and because test suites get
> created which vendors then compete on.

I agree: standards generate demand. It is how h.264 hardware support
originated - by making it a ISO standard, the vendors knew there would
be sufficient market demand for it and created the chips.

Silvia.