[whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for <audio>

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 17:29:28 PDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Adam Shannon<ashannon1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This was from an email that Ian posted, I do not know if it is directly from
> Apple.  I am just posting it as reference, you will have to ask Ian to the
> source/creditability of the statement.
>
> "Apple refuses to implement Ogg Theora in Quicktime by default (as used by
> Safari), citing lack of hardware support and an uncertain patent landscape."

That says Theora, not Vorbis.  I don't recall having heard any
statements about hardware or patent issues with Vorbis, offhand. It's
all focused on Theora.



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