- From: Robert Brodrecht <whatwg@robertdot.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:39:00 -0600 (CST)
Simon Pieters said: > Oh. I thought <video> fallback would work pretty much like <object> > fallback, but I see that's not the case. When I think about it it makes > sense; <video> is pretty much like <iframe>, it never falls back in UAs > that support it. Oh, damn it. I thought it'd work like <object>, too. I'm not sure I like the only-fallback-if-no-support idea. I'm getting the feeling that there won't be one common video format among the browsers. I think not having fallback to nested video elements to get at other formats would ultimately be a bad thing. When PNG support sucked in IE6, I just didn't use alpha PNGs and opted for some other format. If there is no shared format, the only ways to support multiple video formats for multiple browsers would be: 1. Just have two video elements on screen (bad). 2. Swap the src with JavaScript (won't work if JS is off). 3. Delegate content on the server based on http-accept [?] (best of the three, but not very fun). 4. Maybe conditional comments if IE is the oddball (we'll see, but I don't like this option much either). Any thoughts on this or did I miss something? -- Robert <http://robertdot.org>
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