- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:04:48 -0500
Shadow2531 wrote: > Or, do most feel the video element should just support whatever the > browser wants and leave it at that? > Personally I was unaware that there was a platform neutral, open, patent unencumbered video format. However if Theora is such a format, then that would be a very good thing; and I'm tempted to say we should introduce the video element and require it to support Theora and only Theora just to drive its adoption in place of all those annoying proprietary formats that never work right from one browser or PC to the next. But then I take a deep breath, and think that we're really not doing anything here that embed/object doesn't do. Video isn't all that different from Flash or SVG or other non-static embedded content. Different video formats will be used no matter what we do. I'm just not sure that I see a strong enough use case here to justify the introduction of another element most browsers will not support for years if ever. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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