- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:46:38 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Jim Jewett wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > | <video> does support fallback, so in practice you can just use Theora and > | H.264 and cover all bases. > > Could you replace the codec section with at least an informative note to > this effect? Something like, > > "As of 2009, there is no single efficient codec which works on all > modern browsers. Content producers are encouraged to supply the video > in both Theora and H.264 formats, as per the following example" I might add some text along these lines once it's clearer what the implementations have actually deployed. Right now, <video> implementations are still quite young. > (If there is an older royalty-free format that is universally supported, > then please mention that as well, as it will still be sufficient for > some types of videos, such as crude animations.) There isn't, as far as I know. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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