- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:19:06 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 4/28/11, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > >> >> An UA can support the scheme used without supporting the <source> > >> >> element. If <A> was used, they just had to support <A> and the scheme. > >> > > >> > It's still not clear to me what problem this would solve. I see what it > >> > would do, but why would we want that? > >> > > >> Backwards-compat. It's so UAs that don't support <source> can still > >> grasp some semantical information from the element. > > > > Do you have a concrete example of how that would work? What current UAs > > usefully grasp such information in such a context? > > All current UAs would understand the link (and most probably present it > to the user). Inline presentation is an optional luxury: the important > thing is getting the media across. I, for one, can't find any sign of > <source> support in wget, and a few other "non-mainstream" UAs. Well for <video> fallback people are likely to use <a> as well, but I don't think it makes sense to force every <source> to be a link. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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