https://schestowitz.com/Weblog Reflections on Technology Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:47:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2008/09/09/chrome-out-of-the-box-ogg/ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2008/09/09/chrome-out-of-the-box-ogg/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:32:39 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=1481 Ogg Vorbis/Theora Support Makes the Web and Makes Google stronger

• Ogg demonstrates a commitment to open source, which Chrome has made a good start at
• Firefox already does it, so it’s likely to become a reality
• Opera shares similar goals, so it’s likely to join in and perhaps commend Google
• Google Video downloads were a failure that got shut down and annoyed Google customers, proving the DRM hasn’t much potential anyway
• Altruistic value, demonstration of commitment to the World Wide Web
• Enabling YouTube to use Ajax and requiring no binary downloads of Flash
• It weakens Flash and Silverlight, which harm Google’s ‘bread and butter’ by stifling crawling and indexing

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