Google hopes to sidestep the entire HTML5 video debate with a new, open source, royalty free format called WebM. But will Apple ever support it? Judging by to the latest missive from Steve’s iPad, things don’t look great.
HTML5 video has a few hurdles to leap before it can fully replace Flash, but one looms larger than all others: Proprietary video formats. Conveniently, Google has just open-sourced their own, called WebM.
