Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/ogg_data/oggsites

[Jay dedman]

> Firefox and Opera have builtin players.  Firefox's one is based on liboggplay.
> Konqueror and Safari, as they both use WebKit, rely on existing codecs
> in the system.  For Konqueror is a non-brainer because it's a Linux
> browser and every Linux distro has support for Ogg codecs.  Safari on
> OS X on the other hand required the user to have the XiphQT (Quicktime
> component) installed.

cool.
why does it take several years to get this into the browsers?
Im not being snarky, just curious since im not a developer.
an embedded Ogg player would really push video producers to use Ogg.

Jay

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