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		sho_hn on March 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS... But the Windows problems aren't the only justifications they published back then. In the second linked post O'Callahan writes: "It pushes the software freedom issues from the browser (where we have leverage to possibly change the codec situation) to the platform (where there is no such leverage). You still can't have a completely free software Web client stack." Given that it strikes me as ironic that Mozilla is now building a platform - i.e. a platform where they definitely have leverage - that is going to support H.264.

gcp on March 12, 2012 [–]

They're giving the mostly-dead WebM the coup de grace in order to give the newborn B2G a chance to succeed.

That isn't irony. It's at worst pragmatism, and at best not being stupid to continue a lost fight.

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