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Re:Translation From MS-Speak to English of the “Native HTML5... by taken11 on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:10AM (#2453128)
but the new native team still has some IE6isms like no native WebM support
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Re:Translation From MS-Speak to English of the “Native HTML5... by recoiledsnake on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:13AM (#2453136)
What does that have to do with the team itself? Not including WebM makes sense because they don't want to be potentially liable for patent violations in a few hundred million installs. They do support it via plugins though.
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Re:Translation From MS-Speak to English of the “Native HTML5... by obtino on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:22AM (#2453160)
Patent violation claims from the organisation in which they are a key member? Oh please!

MS have stated time and time again that they pay more in licensing fees to MPEG LA than what they make from it. Therefore it'd only be detrimental to other members of the cartel if they go after Microsoft for implementing WebM.

The reason for not implementing WebM are as simple as MPEG LA and Microsoft not wanting the format to succeed.

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