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Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264 336

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @10:21AM from the rally-behind-the-big-dog dept.

An anonymous reader follows up to yesterday's Google announcement that they would drop H.264 support from Chrome. "Thomas Ford, Senior Communications Manager, Opera, told Muktware, 'Actually, Opera has never supported H.264. We have always chosen to support open formats like Ogg Theora and WebM. In fact, Opera was the first company to propose the tag, and when we did, we did it with Ogg. Simply put, we welcome Google's decision to rely on open codecs for HTML5 video.'"

Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome 765

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @07:58PM from the shot-in-the-air dept.

Steve writes "Google just made a bold move in the HTML5 video tag battle: even though H.264 is widely used and WebM is not, the search giant has announced it will drop support for the former in Chrome. The company has not done so yet, but it has promised it will in the next couple of months. Google wants to give content publishers and developers using the HTML5 video tag an opportunity to make any necessary changes to their websites."

Comment it's a nightmare (Score 1) 515

by Quatro on Wednesday February 22, 2006 @02:34PM (#14778183) Attached to: Switching a College from Desktops to Laptops?

I'm over at the University of Dayton, and for the past few years the school has been forcing the incoming study body to purchase laptops from the school. Arts students with Apple, but the majority of the students are stuck with Tangents. Now maybe Dell has a different system worked out to deal with large distributions of laptops and PCs, but the IT department here is swamped nearly 24/7 with problems from students. Students do so many unbelievable things to laptops, and depending on how large your student body is there it could end up just being a nightmare like it is here. I wish you the best of luck, but honestly I think you're in for one hell of a ride...

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