[whatwg] Thoughts on video accessibility

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Dave Singer <singer at apple.com> wrote:

> At 21:33  +1300 9/12/08, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth, loading an intermediate document of some new type
>> which references other streams to be loaded adds a lot of complexity to the
>> browser implementation. It creates new states that the decoder can be in,
>> and introduces new failure modes. It creates new timing issues and possibly
>> new security issues.
>>
>
> I'm not sure I agree;  but if you believe that, we should address it no
> matter which way this discussion goes.  It should absolutely be possible to
> reference a SMIL file, or an MP4 or MOV file with external data (to give
> only two examples) from a <video> or <audio> element, and have the DOM,
> events, states, and APis work correctly.


I agree it should be done eventually, it's just significantly more
complicated than what we have to deal with currently.

Rob
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