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gerbick
2010-01-28 , 16:18
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
No, it doesn't, because the fight over the codec is one thing and could (basically: should) have happened without the "HTML" 5 <video> tag as well. You can use <video> with any codec. Theora, H.264, DivX, Xvid, MPEG-2.... whatever...

And you can fight over H.264 vs. Theora without using the <video>-tag.

I just don't get how people think these two are in any way related... It's almost as if they believe embedding non-flash video wasn't possible before the <video> tag.
Well, that's the problem. Since it's HTML5, they want the <video> tag to be tied to a standard. One or the other it seems, not an and/or - which, to me would be a tad bit smarter. This proved to be an interesting read...

Now, as far as other <embed> tags, those were rather generic in HTML4.x and relied on the content embedded. To embed the video in the HTML5 standard, it seems like they want to do something different; however it's all up in the air since it's not yet set in stone.

It's a standards issue around something I find personally trivial, but they're fighting nonetheless.