No one can seem to agree on anything when it comes to standards. It tends to be either my way or the highway at times and HTML 5 is in the middle of it.
Ian Hendrickson has dropped support of the video codec Ogg Theora due to Apple’s issues with the codec. H.264 (which so happens to be Apple’s codec) is being opposed by other browser vendors, namely Firefox due to licensing issues.
So where does that leave the codec for the video tag in HTML 5, it has basically become a “screw it” and let the market decide.
Eventually one of the two formats have to win out and will gain mass adoption over the other. Much like the MP3 format rose above all other audio formats for mainstream users. It will be interesting to see who supports which codec, the Video Bay currently uses the Ogg Theora Codec and is arguably the number one initiative with HTML 5 and video.
Round One: Tie
