High-ranking Mozilla staff, believing they've lost a fight to keep
patent-encumbered technology off the Web, have concluded it's time to
change course and support H.264 video technology.
The H.264, a "codec" to encode and decode video for more efficient storage and streaming, is widely used in everything from video cameras to mobile-phone processors. However, it's encumbered by patent royalty payments that go against Mozilla's goal of fostering an open Web.
The patent issue led Mozilla to strongly endorse Google's alternative VP8 codec that's part of its royalty-free WebM project. But WebM just more
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