- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:51:37 -0700
At 11:37 +0200 29/03/07, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:04:33 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>>
>> Laurens Holst wrote:
>>> So, what do you think would be needed to fix this situation.
>>
>> In my dream world, IE would support dispatch by MIME type and
>>authors who don't
>> care about targeting a specific plug-in binary could just stop
>>using the classid
>> mess.
>
>For accessibility it is actually important that the *user* decides
>what software they use, rather than the author.
dispatch by MIME type is problematic for public mime types supported
by several platforms but to different degrees ('that software handles
HI-profile AVC in MP4 and this software handles HE-AAC+ in MP4')
--
David Singer
Apple/QuickTime
Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:51:37 UTC