- From: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:33:34 +0000
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Shadow2531 wrote: >> >> I think it'd be cool if the video element *just* supported theora. > > Mandating support for a single specific video format like Theora would > be like requiring browsers to only support PNG for images. Sure, Theora > has the major advantage of being (supposedly) patent free (or > royalty-free patents only), and thus more likely to be natively > supported in browsers than, say, MPEG, but it's not the only format. > Unfortunately, it's not even a widely used format in comparison with > other proprietary/patented formats. > [snip] > >> If it supports whatever the browser wants to implement, we'd have to >> do like the following I think. >> >> <video src="test.wmv"> >> <video src="test.mpg"> >> <video src="test.ogg> >> I give up >> </video> >> </video> >> </video> > > Or simply use > > <video src="test"><embed src="test"><!-- fallback --></video> > > And use server-side content negotiation to determine the best one to send. > Either way, one has to maintain a lot of different versions of the same content. While I agree that mandating that it only support one format is a bad idea, I do feel that there should be a baseline format that all browsers *must* fully support, just as currently we know all browsers fully support GIF and JPEG.
Received on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 23:33:34 UTC