<i>I am completely opposed to web standards including proprietary codecs. HTML5 should have Theora (or some other open gratis and libre codec) as the standard which all browsers wishing to be HTML5 compliant must be able to handle - this does not stop anyone from using h264 if they wish to. What it does is ensure that the web remains as free and open to use as possible.</i><p>You seem not to realize that Apple and Microsoft are the ones writing the "standards".  Their goal is use HTML5 to make money, not to make the web "more free" or something.<p>Our only hope is that Google takes a stand.