[whatwg] Scripted querying of <video> capabilities

Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 19:24:08 PST 2008


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> 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.

The spec is fine.

I just wanted to point out the correct usage on the mailing list,
since there was a misleading example in the thread. Just being picky.

Thanks,
Silvia.



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