- From: <j@oil21.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:18:27 +0200
?On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 12:03 +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Why is that needed? The elements provide a way to link to multiple codecs > of which the user agent will then make a choice. i do not intend to provide multiple codecs since that would require multiple backend implementations for playing files form an offset, encoding files in multiple codecs on the server, more disk space etc, instead i would only use the <video> tag if the codec i use is supported and fall back to other means via <object> / java / flash or whatever to playback the video or indicate that the user has to install a qt/dshow/gstreamer plugin. in an ideal world i could use <video> like i can use <img> now and be done with it, but since this is not the case we need tools to make the best out of <video>, not knowing what the browser supports and just hoping that it could work is not an option. j
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