[Bug 24873] Current isTypeSupported() definition does not provide sufficient information to applications

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24873

--- Comment #8 from David Dorwin <ddorwin@google.com> ---
(In reply to Joe Steele from comment #7)
> Would it be fair to say that the primary motivator for this value is to
> drive the applications UI based on feedback from the CDM then? Presumably to
> avoid a round-trip to the license server to find out what the CDM could have
> told you already? (namely that this client does not support what you want)

It is to drive some aspect of the application (i.e. UI or streams provided)
based on the UA's knowledge of the CDM. Yes, this is to avoid round trips (and
even the delay for asynchronously querying the CDM directly).

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Received on Monday, 17 March 2014 23:42:35 UTC