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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 a 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 [[TechnicalInternational standardOrganization for Standardization|industry standardISO]], /[[ISOInternational Electrotechnical Commission|ISOIEC]]-[[technical standard|defined]] formats of [[Advanced Audio Coding|AAC]] and the older [[MP3]]. They {{citation needed span|text=cited|date=September 2012}} {{citation needed span|text=superior performance,|date=September 2012}}{{Ambiguous|date=October 2012}} and the risk of a [[submarine patent]] attack from formats which are believed, but not guaranteed, to be “free”.

[[Mozilla]] and [[Opera Software|Opera]], controlling 24% of the market, support the [[Free software|free]] and [[Open-source software|open]], [[royalty-free]] [[Ogg Vorbis]] codec in [[Ogg]] and [[WebM]] containers, and criticise the [[Software patent|patent-encumbered]] nature of MP3 and AAC, which are guaranteed to be “non-free”.

[[Google]], controlling 27% of the market, has so far provided support for all common formats.