Firefox to open up to video...but not (yet) the video you want

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Aug 5, 2008 4:25 PM EDT
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The good news is that Mozilla's popular Firefox browser is getting video support. The bad news is that you probably won't notice. Why? Because the video codec that is coming to Firefox is not commonly used: Ogg Theora. Firefox will also be adding a new HTML tag to make embedding video easier - no more need to launch Javascript - but, again, the video codec is not the ubiquitous QuickTime, Windows Media, or Flash that people use.

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