| The co-operation of many different players is
required to formulate a standards specficiation, and that
co-operation does not seem forthcoming for video media any
time soon.
On the contracry, there seems to be a real scrap
brewing over multimedia format standards in HTML5. Rounds
so far:
- HTML Working Group selected Ogg Vorbis audio and Ogg
Theora video as the standard formats for multimedia in HTML5
- HTML Working Group removed these formats from the spec
after pressure from Apple and Nokia.
- Ian Hickson of WHATWG claims Apple and Nokia are only
concerned with by sued for using the format.
- HTML5 working group has become embroiled in the ongoing
debate over the codecs that browsers should support for
them.
Potential for another version of HTML with no clear standard
for including multimedia content
- Opera filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft
with the European Commission, claiming “Microsoft
has illegally stifled competition in the browser market
by tying Internet Explorer to Windows and by failing to
support web standards”.
- Suggestions were made that the Opera complaint had no
merit, and was simply a publicity stunt from Opera.
- Andy Clarke, invited expert of the W3C CSS Working Group
signalled the Opera complaint as his cue to call for the
immediate dissolution of the Group, and rebuilt without
browser vendors in a controlling role.
- Relevance of W3C role as the standards body being doubted
and debated hotly.
One view is that the “future is not built by consensus
in a working group; it's built by visionaries trying stuff
out and making mistakes”.
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