Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, talks about how video is really separate from the rest of the Web in that it's a much more closed system. "So we need to look at how to make video a first-class citizen on the web."
Speaking after his presentation at the Open Video conference, Surman said he hopes a concerted push toward open standards will "hopefully shift the market away from a black box video plug-in, where the video is separate from the rest of the page, to something where video can interact with Javascript" or other elements on a Web page.
"That may not sounds interesting to those who just watch videos, but it'll be interesting first to video producers who can do all kinds of innovative things that we can't even imagine now."