<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:24 PM, King InuYasha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>The HTML 5 specification should definitely support a codec that fulfills the following legal criteria:</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At the end of the day, the spec does not mandate vendor behavior; rather vendor consensus informs the spec. For various reasons that (as roc mentioned) it is usually unhelpful to speculate on, there has been no vendor consensus on codecs. Perhaps that will change in the future as Google ships a browser with Theora and H.264 enabled, or as Xiph improves the quality of Theora, or as websites begin using some codec(s) broadly. Or perhaps it will not. I doubt anyone has a crystal ball.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do note that in a vacuum, there isn't a problem with not specifying any codec, as IIRC no codecs are specified for the <img> tag and yet practically most browsers implement a common subset and the web basically works.</div>
<div><br></div><div>PK</div></div>