[whatwg] <video> application/octet-stream

[Henri Sivonen]

> While the robustness principle is indeed a good start, this is a
> situation where we are mostly starting with a clean slate. No reason
> to
> muddy the waters without having actual problems in the wild, or else
> it's the tag soup situation all again (clients try to guess based on
> incorrect information and you end up with stupid switches).

There have been actual problems:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2643447/html5-video-mp4-and-ogv-problems-in-safari-and-firefox-but-chrome-is-all-good/2644341
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2964193/html5-video-problem/2964458
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20100619#l-136
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090807#l-795
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20100520#l-355
http://twitter.com/hsivonen/status/14837369592

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