- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:24:24 -0800
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Feb 8, 2010, at 17:53 , Jonas Sicking wrote: >> Browsers should not be looking for instruction inside the media files, and media players shouldn't be looking in the markup (which might not be there). > > Why should browsers not be looking inside the media file? That's where > the browser is getting all the information about what video to display > and what audio to play. The fact that there's a separate library that > is decoding this information is an implementation detail. Because that's an open-ended problem, and also because the browser might well offer a 'save media file' option even for media files it cannot open, understand, or play. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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