- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:59:58 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv26255
Modified Files:
Overview.html
Log Message:
canPlayType('application/octet-stream') should always return ''. (whatwg r5407)
Index: Overview.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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--- Overview.html 31 Aug 2010 00:35:36 -0000 1.4316
+++ Overview.html 31 Aug 2010 01:59:55 -0000 1.4317
@@ -20981,14 +20981,17 @@
it definitely <em>cannot</em> play media of that type.<p><dfn id="a-type-that-the-user-agent-knows-it-cannot-render">A type that the user agent knows it cannot render</dfn> is
one that describes a resource that the user agent definitely does
not support, for example because it doesn't recognize the container
- type, or it doesn't support the listed codecs.<p>The <a href="#mime-type">MIME type</a> "<code title="">application/octet-stream</code>" with no parameters is
- never <a href="#a-type-that-the-user-agent-knows-it-cannot-render">a type that the user agent knows it cannot
- render</a>. User agents must treat that type as equivalent to the
- lack of any explicit <a href="#content-type" title="Content-Type">Content-Type
- metadata</a> when it is used to label a potential <a href="#media-resource">media
+ type, or it doesn't support the listed codecs.<p>The <a href="#mime-type">MIME type</a>
+ "<code>application/octet-stream</code>" with no parameters is never
+ <a href="#a-type-that-the-user-agent-knows-it-cannot-render">a type that the user agent knows it cannot render</a>. User
+ agents must treat that type as equivalent to the lack of any
+ explicit <a href="#content-type" title="Content-Type">Content-Type metadata</a>
+ when it is used to label a potential <a href="#media-resource">media
resource</a>.<p class="note">In the absence of a <!-- pretty crazy -->
- specification to the contrary, the <a href="#mime-type">MIME type</a> "<code title="">application/octet-stream</code>" when used <em>with</em>
- parameters, e.g. "<code title="">application/octet-stream;codecs=theora</code>", <em>is</em>
+ specification to the contrary, the <a href="#mime-type">MIME type</a>
+ "<code>application/octet-stream</code>" when used <em>with</em>
+ parameters, e.g.
+ "<code>application/octet-stream;codecs=theora</code>", <em>is</em>
<a href="#a-type-that-the-user-agent-knows-it-cannot-render">a type that the user agent knows it cannot render</a>.<dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">media</var> . <code title="dom-navigator-canPlayType"><a href="#dom-navigator-canplaytype">canPlayType</a></code>(<var title="">type</var>)</dt>
<dd>
@@ -21003,14 +21006,14 @@
<p>The <dfn id="dom-navigator-canplaytype" title="dom-navigator-canPlayType"><code>canPlayType(<var title="">type</var>)</code></dfn> method must return the empty
string if <var title="">type</var> is <a href="#a-type-that-the-user-agent-knows-it-cannot-render">a type that the user
- agent knows it cannot render</a>; it must return "<code title="">probably</code>" if the user agent is confident that the
+ agent knows it cannot render</a> or is the type
+ "<code>application/octet-stream</code>"; it must return "<code title="">probably</code>" if the user agent is confident that the
type represents a <a href="#media-resource">media resource</a> that it can render if
used in with this <code><a href="#audio">audio</a></code> or <code><a href="#video">video</a></code> element;
- and it must return "<code title="">maybe</code>"
- otherwise. Implementors are encouraged to return "<code title="">maybe</code>" unless the type can be confidently
- established as being supported or not. Generally, a user agent
- should never return "<code title="">probably</code>" if the type
- doesn't have a <code title="">codecs</code> parameter.</p>
+ and it must return "<code title="">maybe</code>" otherwise.
+ Implementors are encouraged to return "<code title="">maybe</code>"
+ unless the type can be confidently established as being supported or
+ not. Generally, a user agent should never return "<code title="">probably</code>" if the type doesn't have a <code title="">codecs</code> parameter.</p>
</div><div class="example">
@@ -35048,8 +35051,8 @@
there are no <a href="#concept-input-type-file-selected" title="concept-input-type-file-selected">selected files</a>,
then append an entry in the <var title="">form data set</var>
with the <var title="">name</var> as the name, the empty string
- as the value, and <code title="">application/octet-stream</code>
- as the type.</li>
+ as the value, and <code>application/octet-stream</code> as the
+ type.</li>
<!-- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529859 -->
<li><p>Otherwise, if the <var title="">field</var> element is an
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