- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:50:44 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
At 14:44 -0400 25/08/08, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >Dave Singer wrote: >>>That seems entirely unreasonable to me. In particular, it doesn't >>>let me, as an author, try for a higher-quality codec with fallback >>>to a more commonly supported one. >> >>No, you mis-understand. That case is precisely why multiple source >>elements are allowed. > >Hmm. OK. So I can fall back to a different codec using multiple ><source>s. I can't fall back to a video format that only has >plug-in support, though? I don't know what you mean. If the browser supports plug-able formats for audio and video elements, you can, yes. How the browser chooses to support audio and video container and codec formats is entirely an engineering decision. -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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