Mathias Hasselmann

Postings by Mathias in March 2011

Web video lies

Those days it's easy to read things like: "Every decent browser supports WebM". So let me share some little wisdom: Things don't become true, just because Google tells so.

For instance Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS does not support WebM, unless you activate some obscure PPAs. Maybe.

Firefox supports WebM only since version 4, which was released just a few days ago.

My smartphone also doesn't ...