Thank you. Look, I get everyone is afraid of Chrome; I don’t use it either. But Safari is a case study on why competition is good: MobileSafari still railroads you into patent-encumbered codecs, whereas Safari on macOS, where Apple, certainly begrudgingly, must compete on a somewhat even playing field, magically supports WebM and other things they will never do on iOS.
You ever wonder why Opus isn’t used more often considering how much better it would be for bandwidth, the fact that it’s not patent-encumbered, and the fact that Google dominance has absolutely jack shit to do with it? Check the notes on the funny green-yellow columns and you tell me.
WebM is supported in the most recent version of iOS, FWIW.
Someone told me this earlier, but I can't find any information about it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31803078
I am literally dying to be wrong, so please let me know if I am. I will install whatever beta or preview iOS version tonight.
I’m on the latest production iOS, not a beta version, and the video on this page loads fine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM
https://github.com/brion/ogv.js
That's great and all, but it has limitations, and obviously, is ludicrously less efficient than it should be.