[vvatsa]

"""The fact is, the W3C is violating its own principles by allowing H.264 to infiltrate its way into the next HTML spec."""

I think this is a very valid point, w3c is suppose to promote open tools for the web of consumers and authors regardless their technology. A patented tool does not promote this.

[DrJokepu]

Within W3C's mission statement ( http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission ), this is not mentioned. Can you provide a reference to back up this claim? (that is, that W3C is supposed to promote open tools or would violate any of its principles by not requiring to support any particular video encoding)

[rimantas]

What kind of bullshit is this? The spec does not forbid you to use any codec you want. Or do you want it to ban H.264 so inferior codecs could have a chance? Way to go.