[coldpie]

MSE is actually really cool and makes streaming media over HTTP much more pleasant. I'm not surprised they want to keep the number of codepaths they have to support low. As the GP mentioned, MSE is coming to Firefox soon anyway.

[Piskvorrr]

ActiveX is actually really cool and makes [whatever new feature] much more pleasant. I'm not surprised they want to keep the number of codepaths they have to support low. Have we been here before?

[untog]

The difference is that MSE is a W3 standard, as linked to in the original comment. It's not Google's own proprietary standard.

[Piskvorrr]

Ah, that is indeed a fair point; hopefully, Google will switch to capability checking instead of UA sniffing, once this is implemented in FF.

[RoryH]

Once they forked Webkit into Blink they took the bad path.

[thethimble]

What does Blink have anything to do with this? Blink is completely open source as is Webkit?