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From: David H. Lipman on 9 Jun 2010 20:19
From: "Craig" <netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com>

| Good news for open web standards.

>> A Mozilla developer announced today that support for WebM has been
>> merged into the Firefox source code and that the feature will be
>> available in the next nightly build of the open source Web browser.
>> WebM videos that are displayed with the HTML5 video tag will work out
>> of the box in the next major version of Firefox.

| <http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/webm-video-lands-in-firefox-trunk.ars>

| Moving forward, the web should be less dependent on proprietary
| standards and malware vectors such as Flash.

Except when something else becomes "standardized" it too will become exploited due to its
wide distribution audience.


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From: Craig on 9 Jun 2010 21:22
On 06/09/2010 05:19 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Craig"<netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com>
>
> | Good news for open web standards.
>
>>> A Mozilla developer announced today that support for WebM has been
>>> merged into the Firefox source code and that the feature will be
>>> available in the next nightly build of the open source Web browser.
>>> WebM videos that are displayed with the HTML5 video tag will work out
>>> of the box in the next major version of Firefox.
>
> |<http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/webm-video-lands-in-firefox-trunk.ars>
>
> | Moving forward, the web should be less dependent on proprietary
> | standards and malware vectors such as Flash.
>
> Except when something else becomes "standardized" it too will become exploited due to its
> wide distribution audience.

Sure, agreed.

And this is where having an actively engaged community really pays off:
considering WebM's consortium list and open-source licensing, WebM will
have an order of magnitude more /friendly/ eyeballs looking at it than
Flash ever has.

And by no means am I a security expert, but last thing I want to have on
my networks are code which depend on "security by obscurity" as a
strategy.

thx,
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From: David H. Lipman on 9 Jun 2010 21:42
From: "Craig" <netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com>

| On 06/09/2010 05:19 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "Craig"<netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com>

>> | Good news for open web standards.

>>>> A Mozilla developer announced today that support for WebM has been
>>>> merged into the Firefox source code and that the feature will be
>>>> available in the next nightly build of the open source Web browser.
>>>> WebM videos that are displayed with the HTML5 video tag will work out
>>>> of the box in the next major version of Firefox.

>> |<http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/webm-video-lands-in-firefox-trunk.
>> ars>

>> | Moving forward, the web should be less dependent on proprietary
>> | standards and malware vectors such as Flash.

>> Except when something else becomes "standardized" it too will become exploited due to
>> its
>> wide distribution audience.

| Sure, agreed.

| And this is where having an actively engaged community really pays off:
| considering WebM's consortium list and open-source licensing, WebM will
| have an order of magnitude more /friendly/ eyeballs looking at it than
| Flash ever has.

| And by no means am I a security expert, but last thing I want to have on
| my networks are code which depend on "security by obscurity" as a
| strategy.

Of course there also has to be a level of adoption.

Some say an invention that never was used was never invented.


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From: Mark Warner on 10 Jun 2010 13:07
Bear Bottoms wrote:
> Craig wrote:
>> Good news for open web standards.
>>>
>>> A Mozilla developer announced today that support for WebM has been
>>> merged into the Firefox source code and that the feature will be
>>> available in the next nightly build of the open source Web browser.
>>> WebM videos that are displayed with the HTML5 video tag will work out
>>> of the box in the next major version of Firefox.
>> <http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/webm-video-lands-in-firefox-trunk.ars>
>>
>> Moving forward, the web should be less dependent on proprietary
>> standards and malware vectors such as Flash.
>
> So old news. The web has for a long time been moving toward standards and
> the cloud whether anyone likes it or not (the whole point of HTML5). Sure
> you can dig your heels in, but you will be left behind.

Mr. Non-Sequitur speaks.

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From: za kAT on 10 Jun 2010 18:34
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:40:15 -0700, Craig wrote:

> Good news for open web standards.
>
>> A Mozilla developer announced today that support for WebM has been
>> merged into the Firefox source code and that the feature will be
>> available in the next nightly build of the open source Web browser.
>> WebM videos that are displayed with the HTML5 video tag will work out
>> of the box in the next major version of Firefox.
>
> <http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/webm-video-lands-in-firefox-trunk.ars>
>
> Moving forward, the web should be less dependent on proprietary
> standards and malware vectors such as Flash.

Flash is cool. Seriously.

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