Google To Push WebM With IE9, Safari Plugins 413
surveyork writes with this "new chapter in the browser wars: 'Google in a defense of its decision to pull H.264 from Chrome's HTML5 revealed that it will put out WebM plugins for Internet Explorer 9 and Safari. Expecting no official support from Apple or Microsoft, Google plans to develop extensions that would load its self-owned video codec. No timetable was given.' So Google gets started with their plan for world-wide WebM domination. They'll provide WebM plugins for the browsers of the H.264-only league, so in practice, all major browsers will have WebM support — one way or the other. Machiavellian move?"
Hah (Score:2, Funny)
..Microsoft responds by releasing an H.264 plugin for Chrome
Of course it will work (Score:5, Funny)
After all, we've seen how Silverlight has come to dominate the web.
Re:But how will it be encoded? (Score:0, Funny)
"important" - at least one GPL application
"near" - not much later than the year of Linux on the desktop