[Foundation-l] No default codec for <video> and <audio> in HTML5

[David Gerard]

2009/7/3 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:

> A compromise is a win-win. In the absence of a compromise its a lose-lose.
> Except that H264 wins since almost all of us already support it.


Relying on something rendered radioactive by the software patents
attached to it is not a win.

It would be lovely if H.264 wasn't, legally speaking, toxic waste.
However, it is.


- d.