Re: Re: [theora] This is a sad day for interoperability in the Web

"Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:34:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.vorbis.general,gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/23/07, Daniil Kolpakov <[email protected]> wrote:
> One more comment: I believe, embedding the video file in the web page using
> the "<object>" tag works in many browsers since long ago. But there are
> uncertancy of the supported file formats/codecs and the lack of possibility
> of the interface customization.

That is why the <video> and <audio> elements of HTML 5 are so
important.  They provide an uniform API, as well stating the default
codecs (i.e. Theora and Vorbis).  And that is why it's such a big
priority to get them working on as many browsers as possible ASAP.