[whatwg] Scripted querying of <video> capabilities

[Henri Sivonen]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:14, timeless wrote:
> We'd probably be forced to lie and claim every codec imaginable.

Would the situation be any different for the <source> element fallback?

If MicroB.next ships without Gecko's built-in liboggplay <video> back  
end but ships with the GStreamer back end and a third party provides  
an Ogg plugin for GStreamer, as a user I'd want video on Wikipedia to  
Just Work if the third-party GStreamer Ogg plugin is installed.

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