- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:53:00 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Nabil Elisa wrote: > > Furthermore I'm not sure I agree with Ian's argument for holding out > until the browsers support the current API more reliably. My experience > has shown that there are numerous cross-browser incompatibilities in the > existing implementations of more trivial features, yet we are not > waiting for all of those to get resolved before adding support for, say, > native video. So why should this be any different? The browser vendors were implementing <video> whether we specced it or not. > Anyway, I'm new to this group and don't know much about how decisions > are usually made here, but in case there was any doubt about this idea's > popularity I'd like to lend it my own +1. Decisions are made based on their technical merits, it doesn't matter how many people support it. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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