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The H.264 Debacle: We're Complaining to the Wrong People


Think about it. We can spend our time whining on and on to these commercial vendors, or we can cut to the chase and try to get the HTML5 spec fixed--in which case the commercial vendors would have to fix their implementations in order to be considered compliant. And the thing is, it is actually a lot easier to make a case to the W3C than it is to Apple or MS, because they are actually supposed to have the interests of the open web at heart.

The fact is, the W3C is violating its own principles by allowing H.264 to infiltrate its way into the next HTML spec.

 

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