[whatwg] Scripted <video> query proposal

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson at apple.com>wrote:

>
>   A three state return is an interesting idea, but wouldn't you then be
> required to return "maybe" for MIME types that can describe multiple
> formats? For example, "video/mpeg" can be used to describe a video
> elementary stream, an MPEG-1 system stream, an MPEG-2 program stream, or an
> MPEG-2 transport stream. "application/ogg" can include dirac, flac,
> theora, vorbis, speex, midi, cmml, png, mng, jng, celt, pcm, kate, and/or
> yuv4mpeg. And then there is "video/quicktime"...
>
>   I think it makes more sense to leave it as a boolean, where "no" means
> the UA does not support the type, and "yes" means that the UA implements
> some support for the type but errors can occur during loading and/or
> decoding.
>

OK, for extensible container types with no codec information supplied, the
browser would have to return "maybe". But how is that worse than defining
"yes" to mean "maybe"?

Rob
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