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NVI | 11 years ago

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_...

There isn’t a single video format that is supported by all major browsers.

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simoncion|11 years ago

Moot decided on webm for 4chan's anigif replacement. If more websites do the same, MSFT and Apple will have their decision made for them.

We need to stop caring about the opinions of companies who aren't interested in helping The Web.

xooyoozoo|11 years ago

"Helping The Web" in this case would be choosing the video format with the broadest support base... which in this case is H264. The only holdouts are Opera and a couple variants of Firefox. As a bonus, you'd get hardware acceleration in almost all mobile devices and a good chunk of the desktop market.