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Re:Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for o... by macrael on Thursday January 13, 2011 @05:52AM (#2099433)
I would argue that none of the desktop browsers are having an effect in this area. The only thing that is really driving the adoption of html5 <video> is mobile devices and their poor or nonexistent support for flash.

Many sites that serve mobile devices html5 video still serve flash to html5 capable desktop browsers.

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Re:Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for o... by bad_user on Thursday January 13, 2011 @06:09AM (#2099469)
Mobile devices will support WebM; simply because desktops/laptops still rule and there's tremendous pressure to support desktop technologies for content-delivery that are popular.

And I would argue that the majority of traffic for websites like YouTube comes from desktops / laptops.

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