- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:23:10 -0500
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program" <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Jun 27, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Ben Boyle wrote: > > Question. What happens in UAs if authors use <video> for an image: > > <video src="mycat.jpg"> > Fluffy, still only a few inches tall, is playing with a red ball > of yarn that has to 3 times her size. She has just fallen on her back > and it looks like the ball of yarn is crushing her. But she's really > just having fun. > </video> > > I'm guessing it will fallback, unless UAs support "jpg" in the video > context ... maybe theyll throw a MEDIA_ERR_DECODE error. I know this > sounds a bit silly, but I am thinking about ways of utilising fallback > with images. Or a video with just one frame? :-) I think the fact that you're searching for creative ways of using these other elements (already) points to the need to have a parallel one for still images. Take care, Rob
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