[whatwg] H.264-in-<video> vs plugin APIs

Eric Carlson eric.carlson at apple.com
Sun Jun 14 09:48:21 PDT 2009


Silvia -

On Jun 13, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:

> As for Safari and any other software on the Mac that is using the
> QuickTime framework, there is XiphQT to provide support. It's a
> QuickTime component and therefore no different to installing a Flash
> plugin, thus you can also count Safari as a browser that has support
> for Ogg Theora/Vorbis, even if I'm sure people from Apple would not
> like to see it this way.
>
   Speaking of misinformation and hyperbole, what makes you say  
"people from Apple" want to hide the fact that Safari supports third  
party QuickTime codecs? We *could* have limited WebKit to only support  
QuickTime's built-in formats, but did not specifically so customers  
can add other formats as they choose.

   We have never tried to hide this, it is ridiculous to imply  
otherwise.

eric


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