No OGG for HTML5 ?!

Oh boy, this must be bad…

This just came in a good time…

As my friend SIGTERMer asked if Silverlight 3 supports Ogg or not (Which obviously it doesn’t), it appears that even the HTML5 standard doesn’t support Ogg as well (Neither h.264) 😛

To make it short, the reason for not supporting Ogg is that it won’t be supported by all vendors… Wanna blame someone?

Apple won’t implement Ogg Theora for QuickTime due to lack of hardware support and patent issues…

Opera and Mozilla built the Ogg support in their latest browsers, but won’t support h.264 due to patent and license issues…

Google supports Ogg and h.264 in Chrome. But believe that Ogg is not suitable for the volume handled by YouTUBE and they’re not giving h.264 license to third-party distributors…

Microsoft has not made any comment yet (Silence is golden, Ducktape is silver *Quack* *Quack*)…

Basically, there’s no definite video support in HTML5…

Click here to read the related ZDNET article.

One thought on “No OGG for HTML5 ?!

  1. NOOOO!

    I was REALLY counting on ogg being part of the HTML5 specification ;_;
    it was one of the few things that got me excited about HTML5.

    Even though ogg theora isn’t as good as other proprietary formats, it is still an excellent format. I guess i can forget about easy video addition in HTML. so much for that 🙁

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