On 12 Oct 2014 21:48, "Jon Piesing" <Jon.Piesing@tpvision.com<mailto:Jon.Piesing@tpvision.com>> wrote: >> >> Sylvia, >> >> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer >> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com<mailto:silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>> wrote: >> <snip> >> > The relevant angle here is the Web, since we're in the W3C. When you >> > use a Web browser or a Web browser's rendering engine to render video, >> > you have to ascertain that it still fits within the limitations of the >> > Web platform and its technologies. That's all really. >> >> That's one perspective. Another perspective is that the web browser is just controlling a media player provided by the platform which has an existence outside the Web platform. >That's not how html5 video works. The player is part of the browser, not a separate application. The embedded browsers that I know all call a media player library (not application) provided by the platform - the same media player library used by other features of the platform. Jon
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