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Re:The Practical vs. Idealistic Scenarios for the Near-Term ... by NickPollard on Thursday January 13, 2011 @07:27PM (#2101937)
I know full well that Flash is not a codec; I never implied as such. The point is, many people served a non-h.264 codec through flash, and so they would not have just been able to supply the same source video through a <video> tag rather than through flash.
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Re:The Practical vs. Idealistic Scenarios for the Near-Term ... by ugh on Thursday January 13, 2011 @10:04PM (#2102368)
I don’t think Theora and VP8 were widely used before the first browsers gained support for the <video> tag. Does Chrome support other codecs than those two?
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