Its not just the developers, but the media has jumped on it as well.
Attention has definitely focused to mobile as they think of a desktop or
laptop as cumbersome and not needed. Even Microsoft knows this and why they
are pushing Windows 8 on the tablet so hard.
I even saw an article about
There's some pretty heavy misunderstanding about this story (not necessarily
here but elsewhere on the web). Mozilla won't actually be licensing any
patents; it's just going to use OS-level or hardware-level decoding where
available.
Can't say I blame them, honestly. I'm not even too
H.264 isn't going away anytime soon since unlike WebM it can be decoded via
GPU.
Mozilla wishes to expand its browser's market share on mobile devices which
rely on video decoding via GPU, so they must support H.264 via HTML5 on their
mobile versions, since they cannot support it via the
Mozilla should drop support for Adobe Flash on Microsoft Windows as Adobe
has done for GNU/Linux.
There would probably be a fight given that it isn't Mozilla that is
supporting it exactly. Mozilla blocking the plug-in and treating it as
malicious (which it is) on each update would put a
I'd love to see that, the Windows version of Firefox reporting Flash as a
spyware and forcing the user to remove it and never install it again.
This makes H.264 a bit tricky in certain countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patent_licensing
Mozilla does support Adobe Flash - if you visit a website that requires Flash
on FireFox Mozilla recommends the non-free Flash plugin (and not Gnash).
So how would this work with Abrowser and IceCat? Do they look for Gstreamer
or libavcodec on the system and use them? Or do they continue to block
entirely? I say this becuase the Gnash browser plugin will recommend and
install the Gstreamer libraries for the MPEG4 container and the codecs
Abrowser uses Gnash which requires Gstreamer and libavcodec (just type
aptitude show gnash-common in the terminal to see all the dependencies).
That isn't entirely correct. Neither was my statement though. It is more or
less what they did in any event.
I'm pulling this from my head. Feel free to reply with corrections. Provided
my memory serves me correctly this is the details of the press release:
Adobe has said they are dropping
I can't edit my original post so here is another link supporting my original:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/video-mobile-and-the-open-web/
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