W3C Drops Audio and Video Codec Requirements From HTML 5 Print E-mail
Written by andrew n   
Wednesday, 09 September 2009 14:11

webmonkey.com graphicwebmonkey.com reports that W3C have droped support for audio and video codec requirements

 "The stewards of the web have removed the sections of the HTML 5 draft specification that would recommend web browsers support audio and video playback using a specific codec."

 Now this is a joke... without standardised codecs for audio and video using the in draft HTML 5 markup - we could see something as horific as web java applets and DHTML - back in the early days of the web.

 No doubt - we'll see some more proprietary shenanigans from microsoft.

 

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