- From: Maik Merten <maikmerten@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:59:33 +0100
Gervase Markham schrieb: > A good point. I know nothing about extending IE; would it be possible to > have an IE addon which implemented support for a <video> tag, or would > it need to be a plugin and therefore use <object>-style markup? Well, I guess everybody here will hate me for proposing it... and I think it's ugly... but well... <video> Perhaps a verbose description of what can be seen here? <novideo> D'oh, your browser is outdated... let's embed an <object> here </novideo> </video> Downside: Bloat. Upside: The author can either embed an object (e.g. in IE video would call the Windows Media Player - and that can be extended to support basically every media format - including MPEG, the Ogg formats (there is software for this in existance) or whatever else is out there) or simply tell the user to get a decent browser (yay, browser buttons all over again!). Plus it would feature a description of the video content for browsers that can't possibly display video (text browsers, mobile phones that don't have the bandwidth). Anyway: With external software it should be possible to get the IE to support a <video> tag. In worst case just grab the document source and substitue <video> with <object> and make sure the user has a fitting plugin for the mandatory format installed. Maik Merten
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