- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:09:42 -0700
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> Hmm.. is that good? What if you want to use an <object> (to use flash or >> java) or a <img> as fallback? > > Then you do it with script. > > The design is based around the assumption that we will eventually find a > common codec so that fallback won't ever be needed in supporting UAs. I agree that the current design makes sense once there is a common codec supported across all browsers. However currently it seems like we might not reach that point until after all major browsers support <video>. What would be the downside of displaying the fallback contents if none of the videos can be displayed due to unsupported codecs? / Jonas
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