No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM 
I was discussing this with some people yesterday. I find it incredibly frustrating that the Grubers of the world have spent months attacking Google for supporting the evil, closed Flash, but then manage to spin Google dropping a closed format in favor of an open one as evil and using it as a roundabout way of continuing to hate on Flash.<p>The fact of the matter is that Flash is an entrenched, defacto standard and isn't going away any time soon. HTML5 isn't anywhere close to completely replacing Flash even if it were to disappear in a puff of logic right this moment.<p>HTML5 <video> is in its infancy, and isn't being perpetuated by sheer momentum like Flash. Further, H.264 was a complete non-starter for Mozilla, and Firefox holds nearly 20% of the market. Using H.264 for HTML5 <video> would have <i>guaranteed</i> market segmentation and hurt the chances of a truly open future.<p>This argument about dropping H.264 propagating Flash in the short term is just insanity to me. Flash is <i>already</i> here for the short term. We need to focus on our <i>long-term</i> options for moving to something more open, and the whining about this decision strikes me as totally myopic at best and blind fanboyism at worst.