And this is why practically everyone uses Flash regardless of the problems it has: 98% of users have it installed and you can use a single encode for everyone. Even better, that single encode is the best possible encode you can get, since Flash supports practically unrestricted H.264 playback.
HTML5 is going to be a compatibility nightmare. Of course, this has nothing to do with W3C, but rather the fact that nobody involved can make any agreement on what the standardized format should be, so there just isn't any (and not enough browser vendors have the cajones to do what Google is doing and bundle ffmpeg).
HTML5 is going to be a compatibility nightmare. Of course, this has nothing to do with W3C, but rather the fact that nobody involved can make any agreement on what the standardized format should be, so there just isn't any (and not enough browser vendors have the cajones to do what Google is doing and bundle ffmpeg).