John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a good write-up of the current debacle surrounding the choice of video codec in browsers (Safari & Chrome (and IE9) support H.264, Firefox & Chrome support Ogg-Theora). It will be interesting to see where things lead in a few years and what will happen with h.264 licensing, as well as possible patent issues with Ogg-Theora.

I’ve got one issue with it though (aside from it not being complete). Shadowbox, the media viewer I’m using, seems to have an issue with Firefox 3 and Adblock. It prevents any plugin media (including flash & quicktime) from loading in the viewer. If anyone has any ideas, I’m open to them. Right now, though, I think my best bet is to just provide a different view option for those users who may be affected. Are there any special firefox-only functions that can be used to detect plugins? I’d want this to be as automated as possible.