[whatwg] Serving up Theora <video> in the real world

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > 
> > I actually anticipated this problem, and argued strenuously to break 
> > canPlayType into two boolean functions, "canPlayType" and 
> > "cannotPlayType", but I lost. Hopefully most Web authors are smarter 
> > than I am.
> 
> I think at one point I suggested that canPlayType should return one of 
> boolean false, true or "maybe", so that naiive boolean tests would work. 
> Or in any case, make the "no" option something that tests as boolean 
> false.

I've changed the API to return "" instead of "no".

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