- From: Robert Brodrecht <w3c@robertdot.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:42:25 -0600 (CST)
- To: <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: <w3c@robertdot.org>, <public-html@w3.org>, <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Laurens Holst wrote: > Sure, native video playback, yay. But what has that got to do with > creating a <video> element instead of using <object>. Objects can play > Theora, too, you know. Natively. Just like browsers can render SVG in > <object> tags, natively. Object tags can display jpeg, gif, png, etc. images, but I use img instead. If you are a proponent for dropping all media-based elements in favor of only using object, that's a different story. If you already stopped using the img tag in favor of the object tag, it wouldn't make sense to you to add a video tag. As someone who does use the img tag on occasion, trying to create a cross-browser object tags and having to fall back on embed for IE or do some crazy voodoo magic[1] just to play a video on my site is quite a pain in the ass. Simply typing '<video src="myvideo.ogg">' and letting the browser figure out all the rest is just easier. And it's more semantic. An object can be anything. A video is a video. [1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed/ -- Robert <http://robertdot.org>
Received on Friday, 16 March 2007 17:29:06 UTC