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As Internet video becomes more and more popular, navigating the various online formats is getting more complicated. Now, as the New York Times “Bits” blog reports, a push is being made toward standardization:
The Mozilla Foundation is trying to open one of the last proprietary parts of the Web: Video standards. The group behind the Firefox browser announced that it is giving a $100,000 grant, by way of the Wikimedia Foundation, to help develop an open-source standard for Internet video.
$100,000 isn’t exactly a large chunk of change, but now that we can watch streaming video on our TVs, computers, phones, and handheld gaming devices, standardization seems like a logical step.