Elliotte Harold wrote:
I'm just not sure that I see a strong enough use case here to justify the introduction of another element most browsers will not support for years if ever.
I think there's a strong driver for uptake. As I understand it, all these video-sharing sites are paying mountains of cash to Adobe/Macromedia for the backend software licences to support Flash video streaming. If they could have 15 or 20% fewer servers doing that, and stream to Firefox using Theora instead, the cost saving would be an incentive for them to change their site. Particularly if we implemented <video> in a way which gave them all the capabilities the flash player has - e.g. fast forward, rewind, seek etc.
Of course, I don't know how those costs compare to the bandwidth bill. Gerv
