Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon May 26 11:09:46 PDT 2014


On 5/26/2014 10:30 AM, w0rp wrote:
> On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 17:06:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Youtube has solved all these problems - why not use it?
> You can view .webm directly in recent Firefox or Chrome versions on Windows, you
> an also view .webm in IE9 and above provided you have the right codecs
> installed. It's a perfectly acceptable format.

It doesn't work on the browser that comes with Windows. That makes it 
undesirable if you wish to reach the largest audience with the least friction.

Why restrict the audience if you don't have to? What is gained by using .webm 
that would offset the reduced audience?




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