Microsoft Tips the Scale In Favor of HTML 5

aabelro writes "Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, has announced that IE9 will use only the H.264 standard to play HTML 5 video. Microsoft seems to have become very committed to HTML 5, while Flash loses even more ground. The announcement came the same day Steve Jobs detailed why Apple does not accept Flash on iPhone and iPad."

The bright side

[bcmm]

The bright side is that this codec idiocy might actually get people interested in fixing software patents.

Re:Huh?

[mister_playboy]

I'm a GIMP user myself

Damnit... :P

Teach them a lesson

[tak amalak]

Adobe should just teach them all a lesson and take their apps off Microsoft and Apple's platforms! That will teach em.

Wait...

Re:MS patented video codecs

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you schizophrenic? Because you're mumbling about random crap like a crazy person on the bus.

Re:wow

[IamTheRealMike]

Actually SWF is open as well since 2008. So there are 3 open standards being discussed here. The key question is how many organizations are in charge and what patent royalties do they leverage, not how open it is. Arguably h.264 is far less proprietary than Theora, as it's a collaborative work of many different companies working as part of well recognized international standards committees, as opposed to Ogg which is controlled entirely by Xiph.