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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by bandushrew on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @07:42PM (#2094324)
which means that not one of the tablet/mobile devices out there right now supports webM.

is that true? how many released mobile devices have hardware support for the webM decoder?

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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by redrobot5050 on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @05:14PM (#2097940)
None. And its likely that software decoding of WebM will behave on mobile devices the same way Flash behaves. Okay in newer devices, but laughable in previous generation devices.
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