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

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves justivo at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 07:34:55 PDT 2007


On 8/23/07, Daniil Kolpakov <dan at riga.lv> 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.


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