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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>Yes, the Windows Safari browser
would just use DirectShow to render the videos, and DirectShow allows Microsoft
to register a new codec to handle the Windows Media content.<o:p></o:p></p>
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FYI Safari on Windows uses Quicktime for <video>. Your answer
"yes" is still correct, however.<br>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>The practical answer is “no”, since Microsoft will probably not
be compelled to re-architect Silverlight as a collection QuickTime components
for Apple desktop PCs. (Steve would never allow it on Apple mobile devices, of
course.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Even the theoretical answer is probably “no”. Just as QuickTime
needed a significant update to support frame reordering when Apple added AVC (H.264)
support, it would likely need similar updates to support features and concepts unique
to other media runtimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>IMHO, everybody will be happier focusing on what <video> <i>does</i>
do, rather than being disappointed when “this could happen/that could happen” fantasies
fail to materialize.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>From a cross-platform, cross-browser perspective —mobile too,
remember — <video> is for “HTML 5 Video”, that being the freely
implementable and royalty free combination of container and compressed video
and audio formats that we all hope can be found.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:#1F497D'>— Charles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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