- From: Robert Brodrecht <w3c@robertdot.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:14:42 -0600 (CST)
- To: <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Cc: <asbjorn@ulsberg.no>, <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, <annevk@opera.com>, <matt@builtfromsource.com>, <public-html@w3.org>
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>
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