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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by AgentME on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:32PM (#15846241)
>To be fair, VP9 and WebM both may as well be considered de-facto proprietary formats.

What about how they're used makes them "proprietary"? If there's open source implementations of them that aren't patent-encumbered, then that's terrific.

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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by mastax on Monday December 04, 2017 @04:06PM (#15847521)
I think the point is that they can be useful formats even if they aren't adopted outside of Google simply because YouTube -> Chrome is a large portion of internet video. Most other video formats are seen as failures if not widely adopted.
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