[Vorbis-dev] Announce: OMTK Javascript Vorbis player

[Oliver Thuns]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo
<tor-einar at jarnbjo.name> wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell schrieb:
>> The obvious next-step is to support <audio/> for maximum
>> world-domination power.
>>
> It shouldn't be too difficult to hack at least some kind of basic
> support for <audio/> using the Javascript library, but as long as the
> HTML 5 standard doesn't mandate any codec but PCM/WAV, the "standard"
> looks rather useless to me. The fact that Firefox will support
> Ogg/Vorbis in the next release is of almost no practical concern, as no
> sane web designer is going to make a "Firefox only" web site.

But isn't this what a Javascript media lib is good for? Look what
backends are available and then choose the best option for playback?