HTML5 video and codecs

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I want to make sure that when a child in India or Brazil or Kenya discovers the internet, there isn’t a big piece of it (video) that they can’t afford to participate in.

And yet...Mozilla browsers are the ones that can't view most of the video out there. Are you really doing them such a favor by deciding for them (and your existing users) what formats are ok to view and which aren't? Or are you just shouting "think of the children!" because it's uncouth to criticize?

You're forgetting that people who use "downstream" versions of Mozilla (like the OLPC browser) are somehow more important than people who use Firefox™. Some kind of Rawlsian logic is at work here.

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