- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:41:07 +0300
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Aug 25, 2008, at 21:44, 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? In a browser that supports <video>, you'd have to use a script to try to play the video and if it fails, replace the video element with something that instantiates a plug-in (or the Cortado Theora applet). -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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