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Re: [News] Ogg is Coming to Hundreds of Millions of PCs!!

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____/ Matt on Thursday 31 July 2008 21:05 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Firefox to Support Open Video Format in Next Release
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>> | Chris Blizzard reports from this week’s Mozilla Summit: Firefox will
>> | natively support the Ogg Theora video format!
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>> http://internet.boredblogs.net/?p=2363
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> 
> I suppose it's good news, but I don't know who is going to publish in a
> format that can't be read by most people's preferred browser (IE).
> 
> What is the path to broad acceptance and interoperability?  People try
> to play Ogg Theora content under IE, and they get a message saying they
> need to install Firefox and Ogg?  They do so, and they like FF, and they
> migrate from IE to FF?  Okay, but it seems that the content's usage will
> suffer compared to content published using Flash.  I guess the content
> will have to be published in both formats, with the Theora format
> presented first.
> 
> Somebody please expound on how Theora is to reach critical mass (so to
> speak) and how that will be an improvement over the current situation.

There's now a better chance of it entering HTMLx, in which case Microsoft and
Apple might get some feet-dragging.

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