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[News] Mozilla's Ogg Advocacy Pays Off

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Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players

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| "Gack!" you say (justifiably). "Thank goodness 
| I don't need to know about this H.264-HTML5-Ogg 
| Theora mumbo-jumbo." Unfortunately, if you are 
| in charge of encoding video for your Web site, 
| if you design video players, or manage those 
| who do, then you probably do need to pay 
| attention.
| 
| Blame it on YouTube and Apple. Though they 
| didn't start it, their recent moves have 
| brought the debate about open-source video 
| codecs from niche blogs to a wider audience.
| 
| [...]
| 
| There is one major obstacle to HTML5, however: 
| Mozilla, the open-source developer of Firefox, 
| doesn't support H.264 because it's a 
| proprietary codec. (Mozilla and others in the 
| open-source community prefer Ogg Theora. And 
| Google is looking to buy On2, the company that 
| owns yet another proprietary video codec.)
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http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=177296


Recent:

What's Next for Firefox? Electrolysis

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| With Firefox 3.6 now out the door, what new
| features are coming next for Mozilla's open
| source browser?
|
| Starting with Firefox 3.6, Mozilla developers
| are now set to more rapidly iterate and
| integrate features as part of its 'Lorentz'
| branch. With Lorentz, Mozilla developers are
| aiming to include new features faster while
| maintaining backwards compatibility and
| overall browser security and stability.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3861206/Whats-Next-for-Firefox-Electrolysis.htm
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