On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Hay (Husky)huskyr@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately OGG Theora didn't make it as the default codec for the HTML5 <video> element in the spec. Until one of the two major formats (Theora and H264) is clearly the major format the HTML5 spec will not specify a default codec for the <video> element.
Theora supporters should be pleased with this. Theora is clearly better supported in browsers currently implementing the <video> element, but H.264 is way more common in the broader video environment, particularly in terms of hardware support and support outside the browser (in mobile devices, for example). It's much closer to being the de facto standard of the web than Theora is.