If you're one of those few who gets a funny feeling about web pages that use proprietary standards or you just dislike flash, then we've got some good news for you.
Google, who's recently been pushing HTML 5, their open 3d platform for web pages o3d, and basically anything that opens up the web, has just spent a rather large $106.5 million to come to some neutral ground between browser makers on replacing flash with a standardized video codec by buying a little known company On2. Speculation is that they'll turn around and open source the VP8 video codec with a license that will hopefully calm some worries between Apple and Mozilla. If their codec is as good as it's shown here, I'm excited to see this go through. Now let's cross our fingers and hope the ever quiet, standards defying, IE supports this in the future.
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