Mozilla Makes a Case for Open Codecs in HTML5 Videos

With HTML5 getting a big boost last week, after both YouTube and Vimeo rolled out versions of their sites based on the proposed web standard, some people were wondering why neither of them work on Firefox. It has to do with the codec both sites use, h.264, which is patented by the MPEG-LA and not with the broader HTML5 support in Firefox whi… (read more)