- From: Fabien Meghazi <agr@amigrave.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:39:59 +0200
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote: >> Question: What do people think about making <audio> more like <canvas> as >> sketched above? Well I guess it would be cool for writing canvas games, and necessary if support for microphone or webcam is added in html in the future. > The <audio> (and <video>) tags on the other hand are effectively multimedia > equivalents to the <img> tag, in that their purpose is to display existing > remote content, rather than to create content on the client side. Correct me if I'm wrong but the <img> tag support the use of data:image/xxxx;base64 encoded content, so it's basically possible to display an image generated on client side. I guess it was not the intended purpose to do this at first, but afterall, html5 is all about extending web -- Fabien Meghazi Website: http://www.amigrave.com Email: agr at amigrave.com IM: amigrave at gmail.com
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