- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:57:01 -0800
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:24 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > > On Feb 8, 2010, at 17:53 , Jonas Sicking wrote: >>> Browsers should not be looking for instruction inside the media files, and media players shouldn't be looking in the markup (which might not be there). >> >> Why should browsers not be looking inside the media file? That's where >> the browser is getting all the information about what video to display >> and what audio to play. The fact that there's a separate library that >> is decoding this information is an implementation detail. > > > Because that's an open-ended problem, I still don't understand. How is getting the 'no save' meta data different from getting meta data like duration and frame rate? > and also because the browser might well offer a 'save media file' option even for media files it cannot open, understand, or play. This I agree is a problem. But wget suffers from the same problem. I think this is more of an indication that this is a horrible idea. / Jonas
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