- From: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:57:19 -0700
On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > Any browser that supports integration with an extensible framework > like GStreamer, Quicktime or Direct Show is going to have a hard > time ever reporting "false". Apparently there was a conversation > today in #theora that you might have seen whcih explains why this is > so, at least for GStreamer. > > With a three-value return, at least Firefox with both Ogg Theora and > Quicktime support could return "yes" for Ogg and "maybe" for other > types. But I think Safari is going to have to return "maybe" all the > time --- except perhaps for codecs built into Quicktime. That > doesn't help you. > It is possible to build a list of all types supported by QuickTime dynamically. WebKit does this, so Safari knows about both the built in types and those added by third party importers. eric
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