apple vs. adobe?

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M A V I C wrote:
[quote=The UnDoug]
M A V I C, are you saying that Apple's HTML 5 implementation is not adhering to the standards set forth in the HTML 5 drafts?

They are, but the HTML5 standard does not define what video codec should be used. Apple has chosen for Safari a closed, patented, proprietary, royalty-collecting format. Firefox, on the other hand, has chosen an open source, no-royalty-collecting format.
Not quite that simple. First, Theora is a sub-optimal video codec:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg_theora
"It supports intra-coded frames and forward predictive frames, but not bi-predictive frames which are found in H.264 and VC-1. Theora also does not support interlacing, or bit-depths larger than 8 bits per component."

Second, it may be subject to submarine patents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg_theora#History

http://daringfireball.net/2010/03/on_submarine_patents

Finally, there are no firmware-based encoder/decoder implementations for Theora. On the other hand, the same for H.264 are ubiquitous.

One more thing: H.264 will remain royalty-free through 2015:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000040-264.html