- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 17:55:27 +0200
- To: Odin Hørthe Omdal <odinho@opera.com>, "Silvia Pfeiffer" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Wed, 16 May 2012 03:50:21 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Odin Hørthe Omdal <odinho@opera.com> > wrote: >> I'm not sure. What do you think? As far as I've seen, you're highly >> knowledgeable about <video>. Why do we have mediaqueries on video >> element? >> Do we have a use case page? > > Hehe, thanks. :-) But media queries were in <video> before I arrived, > so I missed the whole discussion around it and how it got there. Some > of the browsers that implement support for it should speak up. We have supported the media attribute since the first stable release with <video> (Opera 10.50) and Git blames me. However, I must say that I just added it because it was in the spec and don't remember any discussion about it. Some digging shows that it was added to the spec in <http://html5.org/r/724>, but I don't know why. As far as I can tell, it's mostly useless and I've never heard of it actually being used. The correct way to handle different screen sizes and bandwidth constraints is adaptive streaming. Simon Pieters has suggested simply dropping the attribute and I would not object to that. -- Philip Jägenstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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