Why Google Should Add Out-of-the-box Ogg Support to Chrome
Filed under: 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
