[whatwg] Javascript API to query supported codecs for <video> and <audio>

[Henri Sivonen]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 13:34, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> Implementation-wise it might be less than trivial to return an
> exhaustive list of all supported mime-types if the underlying  
> framework
> doesn't use the concept of mime-types, but can say when given a few
> bytes of the file whether it supports it or not


Are MIME types the right way of identification in HTML5 if the well- 
known frameworks use something other than MIME types?

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