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Media Patents Your Rights Online    H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin'
Words About Patentability  Comments Filter:   • And the lawsuit
goes to...h.264!      • Re:First Post (Score:5, Insightful)
by MrNaz (730548) on Saturday March 27, 2010 @09:35PM
(#31644208) Homepage        Why on Earth does HTML5 need to even
specify the codec? I mean the tag doesn't specify an image
format, why should not just have a src= attribute and any video
supported by the system will play in it. That way it'd be the
same as the change from GIF to PNG all those years ago, where
those who want to use GIF could, and those who needed / wanted
the free option (which was also superior) could use it without
killing support for the other.        I don't see why this is an
either / or issue.        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
by OrangeTide (124937)          so your suggestion is that all
devices need all codec to be practical? Which is the current
situation. Right now you