Exporting to H.264 to work w/ mac & pc

I'm building a website and need to put some of my videos created in FCP HD on my site. Exporting to a MPEG4 Improved quicktime file works with both PC & Mac but the quality is poor. When exporting using H.264 the quality is much better and the file size is about the same. After posting, the file opens great on Mac computers, but I noticed most PC's won't read it. My question is,
is there any way to export using H.264 for it can work on both PC or Mac, or does anyone know of a better way to export to quicktime file that has a small file size and good quality and works w/ Mac & PC?

I've had similar issues recently, posting an h.264 clip to my site and imploring people to download Quicktime 7.0 for Windows. I was able to view it with my Pee Cee (XP SP2), but I know others who haven't. So I was forced to post an MPEG4 version as well, which is too bad, because H.264 is just incredible (it's a compression of an original HDV Quicktime file). I think we're still a few months away from universal H.264 compatibility ... if ever, given that only Windows 2000/XP computers can play those files.

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