[whatwg] metadata attribute for media

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Ralph Giles <giles at mozilla.com> wrote:

> That said, I'm not convinced this is an issue given the primary
> use-case, which is pretty much that web content wants to do more
> sophisticated things with the metadata than the user-agent's
> standardized parsing allows. If one cares to that extent, and is already
> handling format differences, dealing with vendor variation on top isn't
> that much more effort.
>

I disagree. Vendors proliferate more than formats. A Web application may
well have some knowledge about the formats of its resources, but we don't
want to bind it to particular platforms or UAs.

Rob
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