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HTML5 video - This is the future of video on the web.
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The state of the world today is that making a browser requires tens of millions of dollars of engineering money, a really competent team, and a big support infrastructure. These are all things Mozilla has benefited from for years, because "small" was the days when they were Netscape 2.0. Firefox didn't arise from nothing, it was built atop a decade of prior work by Netscape and AOL, neither of whom was (at the time) poor.
Similarly, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and IE are all built atop code with decade-long histories, using well-funded, capable teams.
This is not getting simpler. Browsers are getting _rapidly_ more complex and the bar just to play the game gets higher all the time. There is simply no way a small team, without money to pay the MPEG-LA, is going to be in a position to write a web browser that has any market impact at all.
Now, complaining that a random Linux distro can't afford to pay the fee might get you somewhere, as would complaining that patented codecs are against your ideology (not that GIFs on the web ever ceased to work even when Unisys was throwing its weight around...). But the whole "we've got to keep the web browser playing field accessible" argument doesn't fly.
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