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Competition: any citation on the Vorbis quality being considered not enough for something?
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==Competition==
 
The adoption of HTML5 audio, as with HTML5 video, has become polarised between proponents of free and patented formats. In 2007, the recommendation to use [[Vorbis]] was [[Use of Ogg formats in HTML5|retracted]] from the specification by the [[W3C]] together with that to use [[Ogg Theora]], citing the lack of consensusa format accepted by all the major browser vendors.
 
[[Apple Inc.|Apple]] and [[Microsoft]], which between them account for around 39% of the browser market, support the [[Technical standard|industry standard]], [[ISO|ISO defined]] formats of [[AAC]] and the older [[MP3]]. They cited superior performance,{{cn}} and the risk of a [[submarine patent]] attack from formats which are believed, but not guaranteed, to be “free”.