[whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

jjcogliati-whatwg at yahoo.com jjcogliati-whatwg at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 15 20:12:05 PDT 2009


Okay.  Thanks. 

Maybe to make this more clear section 4.8.7.1 should add a sentence somewhere like:

Authors may provide multiple source elements to provide different codecs for different user agents.  

Thank you.  

--- On Mon, 6/15/09, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions
> To: "Chris Double" <chris.double at double.co.nz>
> Cc: whatwg at lists.whatwg.org, jjcogliati-whatwg at yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 6:55 AM
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:49 AM,
> Chris Double<chris.double at double.co.nz>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> (That said, I don't think there's anything wrong
> with nesting
> >> <video>s, it's just unnecessary.)
> >
> > This won't work since fallback content is not
> displayed unless <video>
> > is not supported.
> 
> Dang, I was wrong.  I know I remembered some
> conversations about
> nested <video>, but I guess I was just remembering
> people *asking*
> about it.
> 
> Regardless, as noted by others, my <source>
> suggestion was correct.
> Provide multiple <source>s if you're not sure about
> what format your
> users can view.
> 
> ~TJ
> 


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