[ubuntu-us-ma] Fwd: html5 WAR (has been won)

[Danny Piccirillo]

Google has opened up the VP8 coded as WebM! http://www.webmproject.org/

Check out the FAQ: http://www.webmproject.org/about/faq/

What does everyone think? Any criticisms?

It would be awesome if they gave this to Xiph after it gets off the
ground, but i supposed that's asking too much. It also would've been
cool to see this built on Ogg, but Matroska is still open. The name
WebM makes it sound too web-specific, but that's not a huge deal.
That's about all i can think of for now

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Hollocher <danielhollocher at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 13:57
Subject: html5 WAR
To: Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com>


Hey Danny,
Looks like the next shot in the HTML5 format wars has been fired by
Google: http://webmproject.blogspot.com/

Would you like to send a note out to the group?  For all your effort
supporting this move, I thought you might like to be the one to
announce it to the group.

Dan

--
In science and in mind, the impossible and the hasn't-happened-yet are
indistinguishable.

Thanks Dan, i've been watching Google I/O and hope the excitement
doesn't stop here!

-- 
.danny

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