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W3C to drop the OGG default video format
Ian hickson has recently announced that due to too much discord between browser vendors, ogg will not be included in the HTML5 spec as the default video format.
Apple doesn’t want it , opera and Mozilla doesn’t want h264 and Microsoft just doesn’t care. I am pretty sure they would like to implement Silverlight instead of the video tag.
The funny quote : “Microsoft has not commented on their intent to support <video> at all.”
All the drama here.
Author: Cedric Dugas
Cedric Dugas is an experienced front-end developer and founder of Position: Absolute, based in Montreal, Canada. When he is not doing CSS and jquery (does it ever happen?), he likes to read on web usability and play trumpet. Why don't you follow him on twitter.
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Microsoft is co-chair of the HTML5 group.
Microsoft does not show up for meetings.
Microsoft does not return phone calls.
Microsoft does not return emails about HTML5 business.
Why does anyone use Internet Explorer, again?
I can’t answer that
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