Short-term workarounds - - <source> in <video>

Hi Ian,

" ... are only short-term workarounds, and the same applies to, e.g., 
<source> in <video>, or <command>, ... "

this quote was in another topic but it caught my eye because I'm not 
sure how <source> constitutes a workaround; what is the problem 
allowing multiple <source > elements is not solving?

I thought the purpose was to allow authoring a simple fallback scheme 
by offering a list of candidate forms and in case the first <source> 
didn't work, then the second <source> would be tried. Finally if non 
of the listed sources could be played, then <video> would fallback to 
a nested html element for another attempt. This is a great 
simplification from <object> for instance where I only get only one 
type/source try before fallback to the nested node. Your complete 
phrase included <command> which I need to look at, but for <video> and 
<audio> why to characterize <source> as a short-term workaround?
I only know of one alternative and that could be to allow the src to 
list multiple resources in the string, maybe separated by space or , 
but multiple <source> elements work fine. Anyway, I just thought I 
would check in on this before I start advocating adding the use of 
multiple <source> elements in <object>. It's a natural fit.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Joe

Received on Friday, 23 October 2009 02:24:17 UTC