[whatwg] Video proposals
Gareth Hay
gazhay at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 08:26:25 PDT 2007
I don't see the problem with this.
Object is a tag to represent just about anything, even text/html
renders in an object.
Can you identify a use case where you *need* to know before you get a
content-type header?
Gaz
On 17 Mar 2007, at 15:17, Matthew Raymond wrote:
> Laurens Holst wrote:
>> So make the object mime type optional, only indicative. It will
>> receive
>> it from the server anyway.
>
> The problem with dropping the MIME type is that files on the
> Internet
> don't require extensions. They already have MIME types. Therefore,
> as a
> web author looking at someone else's markup, how would you identify if
> the following are images, video or audio?...
>
> | <object data="sonido"></object>
> | <object data="immagine"></object>
> | <object data="série da televisão"></object>
> | <object data="suono"></object>
> | <object data="MyFamily"></object>
> | <object data="película"></object>
> | <object data="pintura"></object>
> | <object data="Nature"></object>
> | <object data="Ton"></object>
> | <object data="Fernsehenerscheinen"></object>
> | <object data="WhoKnows"></object>
>
>
> With a <video> element, you know it's video just by looking at it.
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