- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:46:33 +0100
Charles: > I was hoping that <video> would make Objecty <http://wiltgen.net/ > objecty/> redundant by making it easy for authors to embed video in > a very simple, normalized fashion across formats, browsers and OSs. The |video| element in HTML5 will make it easy to embed videos (potentially including those contained in FLV). The |embed| element in HTML5 makes it easy to embed Flash applets etc. <video src="foo.flv" width="480" height="200" poster="300- poster.jpg"></video> <embed src="player.swf?file=foo" width="480" height="226"></embed> Your |class|-hooked script Objecty seems to try to support both and also supports certain "page" URLs (You Tube, Google Video). The |object| element in HTML5 could still be used like that, but you would probably choose the more fitting of the other two elements (at least as soon as |video| is widely supported, while |embed| already is). Ian, |object| currently has special handling for images, shouldn't videos be dealt with similarily (i.e. not create a nested browsing context)? Also |type="image"| (or 'video') should be enough, without slash and subtype, but I've raised that before. > Now I understand that <video> will be considered successful without > having fixed video embeddeding in general, which is fine. Your loose use of terminology and snappy tone are seriously not helping.
Received on Thursday, 31 January 2008 08:46:33 UTC