This was was cloned from bug 16662 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-04-09 06:36:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-04-09 06:36:56 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Feedback for the Audio and Video tags option section

This standard offers many different options for what codecs to use, and as of
April 8 2012, the implementations of the major browsers circumvent the purpose
of a standard. Rendering the work of this committee useless for these tags.
As a developer I appreciate the work that the HTML WG have done, but I feel
that in this section they have overlooked the fundamental purpose of a
standard. That everything be done a standard way. As such the tags should
require the default of a specific, universal codec. Whether that be open
source, free software, or a proprietary option.
I personally don't care which, so long as I can create media to that standard,
and know that a standards compliant browser can display it. Not the current
make 2 or in some cases 3 versions of the same media, and some browser
detection script to determine which one needs to be served to the browser.

Basically I am asking that the standard defines a standard. If they also want
to include a mechanism for extending the options great... but then we are back
to plugins. Which is what HTML5 was supposed to avoid. Oh wait. WebM is a
plugin...

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