Chrome to drop H.264 support

Google announced that Chrome will drop the support for H.264 video in Chrome's HTML5 component with an intend to increase Google's internally-developed WebM format as well as Ogg Theora.

Google does acknowledge the popular H.264 format had an "important role" but claimed that Google's WebM is open despite MPEG-LA standards group, Microsoft and Apple have warned that WebM may violate patents and could face legal trouble.

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Abandoning H.264 could be a potentially risky move for Google. The majority of HTML5-enabled video on the web uses H.264 and in many cases was put online to help support the iPad and other devices that don't have built-in Flash.

Many web users pointed out that Google being hypocrisy on Chrome's integration of Adobe's proprietary Flash standard which contradicts Google's claim of only support open video formats.

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