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but the new native team still has some IE6isms like no native WebM support

What does that have to do with the team itself? Not including WebM makes sense because they don't want to be potentially liable for patent violations in a few hundred million installs. They do support it via plugins though.

Patent violation claims from the organisation in which they are a key member? Oh please!

MS have stated time and time again that they pay more in licensing fees to MPEG LA than what they make from it. Therefore it'd only be detrimental to other members of the cartel if they go after Microsoft for implementing WebM.

The reason for not implementing WebM are as simple as MPEG LA and Microsoft not wanting the format to succeed.

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