[whatwg] Some <video> questions

[Henri Sivonen]

On Jan 29, 2008, at 01:32, Charles wrote:

> So for Safari on both Macintosh and Windows, is Apple's intent that  
> <video>
> will only work for formats supported by QuickTime?
>
> And given that little internet content targets QuickTime, who  
> exactly will
> be using the <video> tag?


Even though video codecs aren't pluggable on the browser level in  
Safari, they are pluggable on the QuickTime level. For example, XiphQT  
enables Ogg/Theora/Vorbis support in QuickTime. Flip4Mac enables WMV  
support. MPEG-4 support is part of QuickTime itself.

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