[whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Mon Jul 13 11:33:44 PDT 2009


Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> It would have to be part of the resource selection algorithm. Since that 
> waits for new source elements indefinitely, when exactly would you 
> decide to switch to fallback content? Bad solutions include 
> special-casing static markup and/or (falsely) assuming that scripts will 
> not insert more source elements at some point. If fallback content is 
> defined simply as the content of the video element I also can't figure 
> out any other solutions.

A <source> that says "use the content"?

-Boris



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