…According to Mozilla chairman Mitchell Baker, not supporting H.264 “has not worked” and Mozilla has decided to ship a product that people should want. “Our first approach at bringing open codecs to the Web has ended up at an impasse on mobile, but we’re not done yet,” Baker wrote. “We shouldn’t beat ourselves up for somehow failing to live up to Mozilla’s values.  We’ll find a way around this impasse.”
In a much more detailed post, Eich lists the reasons why H.264 is the only option for mobile at this time and indicates that desktop may be impacted as well… “

 

March 20, 2012

Mozilla Changes Firefox Video Policy: Native Support For H.264

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