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How is WebM "not open"? It's clearly more open than h.264, and it's open source and free - which you'd think is the ideal for the web going forward.

Chrome, Firefox, Opera support WebM, so that's 50% of the web browser market share right there. If Youtube would default to WebM, and let Flash as fallback for now, it would have a huge effect on WebM's adoption, much more than Apple ever had with h.264 versus Flash.

>Like MS advocated vbscript instead of javascript, Google is trying to replace javascript with a non-standard language called dart.

...which can compile to JavaScript to preserve compatibility.

> Instead of supporting H.264 for video, Google pushes WebM which is not so open after all

Citation needed.

> and no-one support.

Chrome, Opera, Firefox support it.