I can understand Bokia et al's sabotage, as long as submarine patents exist mandating a format like Ogg Theora is always going to give companies the fear, look at what happened with gif.
Having a standard <video> element is still a good thing, it's sat there in the DOM with a standard interface for doing things to it, it can be styled along with everything else, and it will save things like the iPhone having to either work out that an attempt to embed some flash is really a link to a video over there, or dig through the flash itself to find the link.
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Date: 2008-08-27 01:58 pm (UTC)Having a standard <video> element is still a good thing, it's sat there in the DOM with a standard interface for doing things to it, it can be styled along with everything else, and it will save things like the iPhone having to either work out that an attempt to embed some flash is really a link to a video over there, or dig through the flash itself to find the link.