WebM comes to Internet Explorer 9

[Hard Core Rikki]

With Internet Explorer 9 out the door, Google released a plugin for WebM (payback for MS' bringing h264 back to Chrome when it announced to be ditching it?)
With a lack of much material to play with it, Youtube remains the most notable source for WebM-encoded videos (other than one's own encodes).

Introducing WebM in Internet Explorer 9
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | 10:09 AM

Today we're making available a preview release of Microsoft Media Foundation (MF) components for WebM. Microsoft has also announced the components on the IE Blog and posted a demo page.

As Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch wrote last year on the Windows Blog, when these components are installed in Windows they enable rendering of WebM media in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. Because the components are installed directly in Windows, the components can also render WebM in other applications that support MF, such as Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7.

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The good source: http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/03/...xplorer-9.html