Re: MIME type for WAVE with PCM?

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:59:24 +0200, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>  
> wrote:
>> I sort of get the feeling that defining our own magic list of codec
>> keywords that map to existing formats would have been easier :/ (Also  
>> for
>> authors.)
>
> You mean easier than using a number? Possibly, although there are at  
> least 104 Wave codecs (!).

Ouch.


> But we can still do that, and support both names and numbers in the  
> future, if someone's motivated enough to make up a keyword list.

I just meant that since the media type plus codecs parameter is not quite stable yet and also complicated maybe it would've been more worth it to just have a magic list of keywords for the configurations browsers support. However, if there are already at least 104 WAVE codecs that might get a bit unwieldy.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 07:21:15 UTC