[WikiEN-l] Google Chrome to support Ogg Theora video natively

[Elias Friedman]

Very cool! Now if Chrome would only support Google's own toolbar I
might start using it to do things besides watching video.

On 5/28/09, Kevin Wong <wikipedianmarlith at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is awesome. Wikipedia can really use a lot more coverage of video and
> audio files.
>
> Now if only Internet Explorer would do the same...
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Kat Walsh
> <kat at mindspillage.org><kat at mindspillage.org%3E>wrote:
>
>> Another step towards an open web -- Google's Chrome browser is going
>> to support Theora video natively with the HTML5 video tag:
>>
>> http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/google-chrome-3-adds-html5.html
>> http://codereview.chromium.org/115625/diff/1/2
>>
>> (Mozilla has already committed to this--and funded some of our
>> development of video support also!--and it looks like Opera will as
>> well. Video site Dailymotion is now using open video as well:
>> http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1312 )
>>
>> If it weren't for Wikimedia using it, this work probably wouldn't have
>> gone into enabling native browser support for it. So thanks to all for
>> your work on this. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kat
>>
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