Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

Jirka Kosek said:
> And what about backward compatibility? Reasonable webdesigner will never
> use such new element because there are too many browsers which are not
> supporting it. The problem is not in markup, nor in element name -- the
> problem is poor implementation in browsers and new element name will not
> improve situation.

A reasonable web designer that wanted to use <video> (or <media> or
whatever) would use a nested <object> until the majority of browsers
understand <video> (or <media> or whatever), since the new tag would have
fallback behavior.  This isn't a problem.

-- 
Robert <http://robertdot.org>

Received on Monday, 19 March 2007 22:01:27 UTC