Talk:Ogg formats in HTML5: Difference between revisions

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What other free (libre) media format has been proposed for inclusion in a W3C markup specification? PNG? SVG? TXT? RSS? WTF? None? It's not even '''required''' that useragents support or display images of any format at all - what's so special about OGG that it gets special attention from W3C? This isn't intended to be argumentative, I sincerely want to know what's behind this. It seems so contrary to the way any other peripheral media is considered in relation to Web markup language specifications and development. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/76.247.104.84|76.247.104.84]] ([[User talk:76.247.104.84|talk]]) 04:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:The special part of ogg is that this format have no patents and everybody/every vendor can implement this format. The idea behind the video tag is that every browser should be able to handle the video without install an extra plugin - and on some os the plugins are not avaible, i.e. dos or old windows versions(and many other oses)![[User talk:Mabdul|<smallb style="font-family:bold 12px Courier New; display:inline; border:#009 1px dashed; padding:1px 6px 2px 7px; white-space:nowrap"><font; color=":#000">[[User000000; talkfont-size:Mabdul|smaller;">mabdul]]</font></smallb>]] 20:32, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

:The idea is to avoid the current mess we're in regarding video on the Web. Beside Flash, you have Windows Media files, Quicktime files, Realvideo... Each requiring its own plugin/player, most of them from a specific vendor, and sometimes not easily available across OS. Ogg are the only open-source formats for multimedia files, and therefore suitable for implementation on every OS without vendor lock-in. But of course, Apple doesn't want people to move away from their proprietary Quicktime player which is currently installed on a majority of computer. Even if Quicktime is probably better than Theora in term of image quality, if it wasn't needed anymore for most video, their installed base would drop (remember, they tried to push Safari on Windows by including it by default in the Quicktime updater). [[User:Ksempac|Ksempac]] ([[User talk:Ksempac|talk]]) 09:27, 1 July 2009 (UTC)