Re:Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs
by azakai on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @12:00AM
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> Yet Mozilla is giving up before collecting the fruit of their previous policy (no system codec).
The bigger issues are that
* Google never followed through on its declaration it would remove H.264 from Chrome, which would have made almost 50% of browsers that don't support H.264.
* Flash never followed through on its declaration it would include WebM, which would have enabled WebM in IE and Safari and made it possible for YouTube to go WebM-only (on desktop).
Mozilla using system H.264 codecs on mobile (not even desktop) doesn't matter at all compared to those.
The bigger issues are that
* Google never followed through on its declaration it would remove H.264 from Chrome, which would have made almost 50% of browsers that don't support H.264.
* Flash never followed through on its declaration it would include WebM, which would have enabled WebM in IE and Safari and made it possible for YouTube to go WebM-only (on desktop).
Mozilla using system H.264 codecs on mobile (not even desktop) doesn't matter at all compared to those.