- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:58:37 +0100
Also sprach Robert Brodrecht:
> > I'd rather make <video> and <audio> optional so that those who cannot
> > support these Ogg on these elements (for whatever reason) can still
> > comply with the spec. They can also support proprietary codecs through
> > <object>.
>
> Do you mean make the elements themselves optional to support?
Yes. If a vendor, for some reason, is unable to support the Ogg
codecs, I think it's better that they (a) do not support <video>, than
(b) they support <video> with proprietary codecs only.
Interoperability has more value than conformace.
-h&kon
H?kon Wium Lie CTO ??e??
howcome at opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Friday, 16 March 2007 16:58:37 UTC