[whatwg] Scripted querying of <video> capabilities

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sun Nov 16 17:49:03 PST 2008


On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> On a little bit of a side not, may I point out that there is an updated 
> RFC for Ogg media types at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5334.txt and it 
> explicitly includes the codecs parameter with standard values for the 
> current ones supported by Ogg.
> 
> It also recommends using "video/ogg" for video files, so that would 
> change your example to:
> 
> <video>
> <source type="video/ogg"/>
> <source type="video/ogg; codecs=dirac,flac"/>
> </video>
> 
> I know it's a minor issue, but I'd like us at HTML5 to get it right and 
> to recommend the correct mime types to web developers.

Please let me know if there are any problems in the HTML5 spec here.

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