<i>Will it be at some point? Of course.</i><p>You don't understand. Yesterday, the fact that Firefox didn't support the video was "something that will be fixed one day, who knows when, maybe before 2020". Today, it is a <i>big bug</i> which needs to be addressed ASAP.<p>People don't compare managing software projects to herding cats just to be cute. Getting everyone to pull in the same direction really is 90% of the job. You need to start a stampede.<p>(The classic way to get programmers stampeding toward an actual product? Threaten to <i>ship</i> the product. Then, <i>carry out that threat</i>.)<p>The position of the players has not changed. But the <i>second derivative</i> has changed, and the first derivative will follow...