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Why the BS from Mozilla about HTML5 codecs?
reactosguy:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin on 3 January 2011, 05:24 ---The second article is particularly interesting - Firefox are being stubborn now as Mozilla was at the turn of the millennium, when they turned off their working ActiveX implementation forever, despite pressure from users.
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I can understand that: ActiveX can be abused to mess up or even shut down users' computers. All from a proiprietary built in plugin.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin on 4 January 2011, 07:12 ---HOWEVER last I checked (long time ago) Theora and WebM are safe from patent suits - by this I mean nobody has filed a suit against them. This does not mean threats haven't been made, i.e. FUD spread.
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Coincidentally, they are open source plug ins.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin on 4 January 2011, 07:12 ---Unfortunately this FUD tends to be effective (extremely), to the point that I think there needs to be laws against it. But of course it's a patent system, and it suits big business to the ground, so why would America ever change it.
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Yeah, I remember Linux Hater's Blog posting a link to how ineffective Theora is, which had a comment that linked to a post by the Ogg creator(s) that debunked said article about Theora's uselessness.
FUD also reminds me of TMR. They're always stirring up trouble for me to the point that I think that they themselves are hypocrites.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin on 3 January 2011, 05:24 ---The second article is particularly interesting - Firefox are being stubborn now as Mozilla was at the turn of the millennium, when they turned off their working ActiveX implementation forever, despite pressure from users.
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I didn't know about that, was it ever released, at least in beta?
Sounds like a good idea but it would have to be an option addon anbd not installed by default.
--- Quote from: reactosguy on 10 January 2011, 00:33 ---I can understand that: ActiveX can be abused to mess up or even shut down users' computers. All from a proiprietary built in plugin.
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Surely running the ActixX control at a really low privillage level would help mitigate against that.
piratePenguin:
The code is still in the codebase (probably not working), but it was never enabled on Mozilla builds or Firefox. If they decided they wanted to turn it on, it would be working fine. And you probably wouldn't dream of turning it off either!
There was some way of getting it enabled (code was probably used for a plugin), but we are all lucky Mozilla put the principles of the web before functionality. This is a wise default. We almost lost the game once or twice to MS and thanks to Mozilla the web is healthy now, but in a few years who knows what royalties you'll need to pay to publish a basic website with up-to-date technologies, or how much free browser makers are forced to pay up somehow.
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