[whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
>>>
>>> We can do what's described above for videos and audios too (i.e. walk
>>> parent chain etc).
>>
>> We can hack something in, but what about dynamic DOM changes? IFRAME
>> loads? etc
>
>
> More importantly for this list, what should the spec say?
>
> Clearly the desirable end result is that a <video> or <audio> element with
> fallback to an <object> or <embed> should not load or play the fallback
> content. I'm not sure how to spec this in a rigorous and consistent way.
>  - Maciej

Is there some halfway-decent way to treat it like a comment?  That's
the other instance that I know of that content is completely ignored.
How does that work internally?

~TJ