IE9 will support the Apple Safari, Firefox and Opera ignored

May 1, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft's new version of Internet Explorer 9 Web browser will support the Apple Safari using H.264 video coding standard platform, but the platform does not support Firefox and Opera, this news caused widespread debate in the industry.

General Manager of Microsoft's IE browser Dean Hachamovitch in Bowen said: "HTML5 Web-based H.264 standard video playback technology is the network's future, IE9 video tag will only support H.264 coding standards.”

H.264 coding standard has been the industry's broad support within the hardware. Therefore, the user can traditional consumer video product content uploaded to the network or locally, by any standard system to support H.264 (such as Windows 7 and Mac OS X) or device to play content in the browser.

Now, based on the H.264 standard for HTML5 Web video playback technology has become a key feature of the page. Currently, online video generally by Adobe Systems of Adobe Flash Player to play it using H.264 standard for video decoding. Network Technology, Microsoft is joining the ranks of leadership, hope can be completed without proprietary plug-in Flash functionality.

However, the choice of the video decoding technology there has been hampered by differences in the development of online video. For example, if some browsers can see only the JPEG format, while the browser is only able to watch PNG format, people can see the page will be incomplete.

With the open source Firefox browser support Ogg Theora video decoding standard. Mozilla Engineering VP Mike (Mike) said in a blog, if made to the MPEG-LA license H.264 encoder, Mozilla must pay 5 million U.S. dollars of unauthorized use of intellectual property costs. But Mozilla is not worried about money, but the developers, distributors and video producers to bear the cost. If the H.264 becomes the new accepted standard, then the new browser developers will face more obstacles.

Mozilla Firefox developers counsel Harvey Anderson argued that, Firefox does not exist the problem of intellectual property rights, property rights did not exist because of the problems that hinder its use.