- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:41:34 +1100
On the topic of playlists: On 3/24/07, Nicholas Shanks <contact at nickshanks.com> wrote: > How about: > > <playlist><ol> > <li><audio src="foo" type="...">Audio fallback</audio></li> > <li><video src="bar" type="...">Video fallback</video></li> > </ol></playlist> > > User agents that don't support playlist, audio and video just get an > ordered list of fallback text. > UAs that do support them also benefit in being able to negotiate each > variant individually instead of getting whatever collection of media > files the "playlist movie" decides upon. > And perhaps playlists with a <ul> child can play the media in any > order, not necessarily source order, presumably whatever item becomes > available first. There is an existing xml specification for playlists at http://www.xspf.org/ . I suggest treating playlists as objects in their own rights, so they can be shared across different web pages. Thus, a playlist should rather be embedded like this: <playlist src="playlist.xspf"> Regards, Silvia.
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