I don’t think the reason was technical. Firefox has supported WebM (a subset of Matroska) for 11 years, and whatever code they had probably would have been enough for most Matroska files, assuming the codecs are also supported.
However, Matroska itself was only officially standardised last October despite being in use all these years. That was probably what convinced them to add support.
I don’t think the reason was technical. Firefox has supported WebM (a subset of Matroska) for 11 years, and whatever code they had probably would have been enough for most Matroska files, assuming the codecs are also supported.
However, Matroska itself was only officially standardised last October despite being in use all these years. That was probably what convinced them to add support.