I wonder if Apple will add ogg vorbis support to Safari at some point. And here I'm thinking of the iPhone in particular.
Now Firefox 3.1 apparently has native support via the HTML5 <audio> tag:
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/07/nati ... irefox-31/
I can see Wikipedia, for example, making use of that. They might not since IE (which most visitors will be using) won't presumably add many HTML5 capabilities for a long while yet. Wikipedia
is, however, already using the vorbis format, even though most visitors won't have the audio software to play vorbis downloads pre-installed.
So, I suppose, sites like that might use the HTML5 tag so that you could listen easily in the browser with Firefox (or anything else that implements it). You could do that on any desktop platform, since Firefox comes for anything. But what would you do in an iPhone? It seems Apple's wary of ogg vorbis for a number of reasons:
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatw ... 10392.html