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==Motivation==

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Because many users,some visitors and publishers alike, choose not to take part in the use of [[proprietary software]], web content musthas been bemade available through [[Free software|freely implementable]] [[open standard]]s in order to reach these users. As multimedia is already mainstream on the web through proprietary data formats (such as [[Windows Media Video]] and [[MPEG-4 Part 14|MP4]]) and browser [[Plug-in (computing)|plugin]]s (such as [[Adobe Flash Player]]), developers had hoped Theora and Vorbis would become part of the HTML5 specification.<ref>{{cite web

| title = Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble | date = 6 July 2009

| author = RoughlyDrafted Magazine | publisher = RoughlyDrafted Magazine

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Users notaffiliated beholdenwith tothe proprietaryfree software couldmovement alsoclaimed seethe following advantages:

* The potential for universal adoption of Theora and Vorbis, no matter the computer or the user, would ease "codec hell" by eliminating an unnecessary amount of codecs required to view and publish videos to a select few.{{fact|date=January 2012}}

* Browser plugins needed to accommodate the many different codecs would then become a thing of the past:

** Browsers could handle the playback of Theora and Vorbis and allow the user to customize the manner in which that was done.

** Bugs and exploits in obsolete versions of those plugins would affect the user less, as they are phased out; Thethe loss of multiple attack vectors would happen once browser plugins were ultimately removed.{{fact|date=January 2012}}

** The HTML5-conformant player, not having to be coded for compatibility with different browsers, could make bugs and exploits easier to find during browser development, and any exploits found would only be able to target that one browser.{{clarifyme|date=January 2012}}

* [[Free software]] encoders would compete with rival proprietary encoders, increasing encoder quality through competition.{{fact|date=January 2012}}