On 3/24/07, Maik Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Taken that e.g. Mozilla and the KHTML team aren't able to build browsers with integrated (that's what <video> is for: Video without plugins) MPEG4 support without the appended patent licenses restricting the freedom of distribution it's worth to try to get a free format into as many browsers as possible.
Sorry, this doesn't follow. Calling the tag <video> is completely orthoginal to whether it's implemented by a plugin or not. To support it all Firefox et al would need to do is convert it to the equivalent <embed> tag or whatever internally... Most (all?) program that manipulate video/audio data do so via plugins. That's because it's easier that way than trying to build support for every odd format someone might want to use into your binary...
No matter what: Having Mozilla and Opera support a free format is good in any case. If something proprietary gets recommended Debian can only lose. If a free format is in place Debian users can at least watch parts of the content no matter what Microsoft does.
Ofcourse, it'd be good for people to be able to ship a standards compliant browser without shipping non-free components, but that has nothing to do with whether it's a plugin or not... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
