[toddheasley]

>The same argument applies to video sites. We shouldn't be held back and stuck on a proprietary format just because you don't want to write a script to go through and re-encode everything to WebM.

Here's a question: If it's no biggie to re-encode everything as WebM, can't we wait to see if this threat of unreasonable H.264 licensing terms becomes reality and switch to WebM then?

[ZeroGravitas]

They are already unreasonable, hence the fact that they can't be mandated in a W3C standard, many governments have laws saying their communications shouldn't use such a codec, Mozilla can't ship it etc.