HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
MPEG-LA AND THE VP8 CHALLENGE
An interesting sidenote about WebM VP8 is the MPEG-LA group's announcement of the forming
of a patentpoolabout the VP8 codec, not long after Google open-sourced the codec. Right after
the MPEG-LA announcement, the US Justice Department opened an investigation into whether the
MPEG-LA's effort violates trust law by attempting to sow uncertainty about WebM and VP8 and thus
harm a potential competitor.
The MPEG-LA announcement of the formation of a patent pool can be read at
ht-
tp://www.mpegla.com/main/pid/vp8/default.aspx
.
More on the Justice Department's efforts can be
read in an article at the Guardian, “US Justice Department reportedly investigating MPEG-LA over
VP8 threats”, online at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/mar/04/justice-department-
However, I'm not overly fond of trying to get one page to work in two completely different
environments. Many sites have a mobile only version of the content, usually designated with a
m subdirectory setting (such as
http://m.burningbird.net
). In the end, it may be simpler just to
provide the separately formatted sites—especially with Content Management Systems (CMS)
that serve all of the contents from a database.
NOTE
Drupal, the CMS I use, has a custom module named Domain Access (available at
http://drupal.org/
project/domain
)
, that allows us to designate a different theme, page and content structure for pages
served up with the msubdomain. Most other CMS tools offer something comparable.
