- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:33:02 +0200
- To: "Adrian Bateman" <adrianba@microsoft.com>, "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: "Cynthia Shelly" <cyns@exchange.microsoft.com>, "Sean Hayes" <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:58:32 +0200, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com> wrote: > b) We have been discussing whether there is value in supporting > additional optional information on <source> elements. This would be used > to indicate properties of the media stream to provide more data for user > agents to choose between the different sources. Today, the <source> > element provides a combination of MIME type (including codecs parameter) > and media query to determine the available sources. We think an > interesting use case is one where two sources use the same codecs but > are encoded with different properties. For example, they may have > different bit rates. Alternatively, two audio sources may be in > different languages. We're still actively debating this but would > welcome feedback on this idea. Some of this might make sense as extensions (likely in the form of media features) to Media Queries rather than the <source> element. I.e. the ability to download faster is a property of the device/environment in some way. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
Received on Monday, 7 September 2009 13:33:51 UTC