On the topic of Vorbis, is there going to be any big advocacy push for this as the audio format for HTML5?
Wikipedia seem to be leading the charge on this at the moment, but since Vorbis was already playable in Chrome, Firefox and Opera, and it's going to be native in Flash as part of WebM, and in IE9 and Safari as part of WebM plugins, plus there are existing fallbacks to silverlight, java and older Flash versions via an Actionscript based implementation it seems little stands in its way with some appropriately structured javascript to manage the fallback process.
People will need to provide Vorbis anyway for Opera and Mozilla users, but it would be good if the tiny sliver of portable Apple devices were seen to be the ones that you had to do the extra work for and that you maybe didn't bother with if you weren't directly targeting them.
Perhaps even a push to officially bless it in HTML5 if that wouldn't be seen as inflammatory by Microsoft and Apple and prejudicial to WebM in it's entirety being added to the spec.
It would also be tragic if Adobe and Microsoft implemented this in a way that only worked with video. I'm hoping and assuming that audio tag support is planned for in Google's masterplan too, but there's been little clarity on that point.
Re: In the interest of transparency
Date: 2010-05-20 08:06 pm (UTC)Wikipedia seem to be leading the charge on this at the moment, but since Vorbis was already playable in Chrome, Firefox and Opera, and it's going to be native in Flash as part of WebM, and in IE9 and Safari as part of WebM plugins, plus there are existing fallbacks to silverlight, java and older Flash versions via an Actionscript based implementation it seems little stands in its way with some appropriately structured javascript to manage the fallback process.
People will need to provide Vorbis anyway for Opera and Mozilla users, but it would be good if the tiny sliver of portable Apple devices were seen to be the ones that you had to do the extra work for and that you maybe didn't bother with if you weren't directly targeting them.
Perhaps even a push to officially bless it in HTML5 if that wouldn't be seen as inflammatory by Microsoft and Apple and prejudicial to WebM in it's entirety being added to the spec.
It would also be tragic if Adobe and Microsoft implemented this in a way that only worked with video. I'm hoping and assuming that audio tag support is planned for in Google's masterplan too, but there's been little clarity on that point.
(A different anonymous)