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==Motivation==
{{Original research section|date=January 2012}}
Because some visitors and publishers choose not to take part in the use of [[proprietary software]], web content has been made available through [[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{{Who|date=January 2018}} 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 | url = http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/07/06/ogg-theora-h-264-and-the-html-5-browser-squabble/ | access-date = 14 February 2010 | archive-date = 3 December 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101203202243/http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/07/06/ogg-theora-h-264-and-the-html-5-browser-squabble/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>
Users affiliated with the free software movement claimed the following advantages:
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[[Opera Software]] and [[Mozilla Foundation|Mozilla]] have been advocates for including the Ogg formats into the HTML standard.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140408-pg,1/article.html
|title=Mozilla, Opera Want to Make Video on the Web Easier
|publisher=PC World |date=2007-12-07 |access-date=2009-06-30
|archive-date=2008-04-24
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424090201/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140408-pg,1/article.html
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}}</ref>
Support has been available in experimental builds of [[Opera (browser)|Opera]] 9.5 since 2007,<ref>{{cite web
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