HTML5 – Maybe Someday
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Jun 29, 2010
It’s been a one month surge of excitement over HTML5. It’s all quite reminiscent of the release of H.264 (not to mention the original MPEG-4 framework). If you remember, that was the end of the Codec Wars. We all gathered around H.264 and stopped using all others.
Yeah. Just as in that situation, HTML5 and the video tag is supposed to relieve us of player and format choices. Slap the video tag in with an http link to the video and “it just works.”
Of course, it’s not working out that way. Rather than list all the reasons, I’ll simply pass you along to Jeroen Wijering at Longtail Video:
