HTML 5 and Opera (by David Storey)

Choose Opera: What about HTML 5? When will we see <audio> and <video> in Opera?

David: Opera is committed to both Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis for video and audio respectively. These will not only work in HTML 5 but also SVG 1.2, which also includes video and audio elements. We chose Ogg as they are open codecs that don't require a licence fee to deliver to the range of platforms Opera ships on. Mozilla and Google put their stake in the ground with Ogg. Work is on going at Opera and we hope to ship it in the next public version of Opera desktop that includes a Presto upgrade. This will be Presto 2.4, and includes a lot of other niceties such as CSS 3 Backgrounds and Borders (yes, finally border-radius or rounded corners!), CSS transitions and transforms, and a lot more. Its shaping up to be a really nice release as far as developers are concerned. I can't comment on when this will be released but expect a Labs or Alpha/Beta release for developers to test the new features out before it goes final.

I'm so excited!!! :D

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