Adam Fields (work stuff)

I strongly agree with this. Mozilla is pushing an inferior competing standard because it’s open. Openness is an important feature, but it’s not the only one, and I agree that this won’t have the desire effect of increasing openness but will instead drive people more towards proprietary solutions. In other words, people will use flash for video, and when they do, they’ll be more likely to use other flash features. This will have an overall detrimental effect on whether HTML5 is a standard on paper or in practice. Standards that nobody uses are worthless, and proprietary video isn’t worth sacrificing uptake of HTML5 as a whole.