[whatwg] [html5] r4685 - [e] (0) Add an example of forcing fallback from <source>.
Simon Pieters
simonp at opera.com
Wed Feb 10 04:31:09 PST 2010
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:27:45 +0100, <whatwg at whatwg.org> wrote:
> Author: ianh
> Date: 2010-02-09 18:27:42 -0800 (Tue, 09 Feb 2010)
> New Revision: 4685
>
> Modified:
> complete.html
> index
> source
> Log:
> [e] (0) Add an example of forcing fallback from <source>.
>
> Modified: complete.html
> ===================================================================
> --- complete.html 2010-02-10 02:14:17 UTC (rev 4684)
> +++ complete.html 2010-02-10 02:27:42 UTC (rev 4685)
> @@ -21749,8 +21749,32 @@
> </div>
> + <div class=example>
> + <p>If the author isn't sure if the user agents will all be able to
> + render the media resources provided, the author can listen to the
> + <code title=event-error>error</code> event on the last
> + <code><a href=#the-source-element>source</a></code> element and
> trigger fallback behaviour:</p>
> + <pre><video controls autoplay>
> + <source src='video.mp4' type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E,
> mp4a.40.2"'>
> + <source src='video.ogv' type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'
> + onerror="fallback(parentNode)">
> + ...
> +</video>
> +<script>
> + function fallback(video) {
> + // replace <video> with its contents
> + while (video.hasChildNodes())
> + video.parentNode.insertBefore(video.firstChild, video);
> + video.parentNode.removeChild(video);
> + }
> +</script></pre>
The script should probably be before the video, because it's possible that
a UA will fire the error event before having parsed the script defining
the function.
Also, the script results in invalid HTML since it puts <source>s outside
<video>.
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
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