Comments on: <video> explained by meme http://ianweller.org/2009/07/03/video-explained/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:17:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ian Weller http://ianweller.org/2009/07/03/video-explained/#comment-234 Ian Weller Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:32:09 +0000 http://ianweller.org/?p=469#comment-234 @Kevin: oh dang, I misread the diff when I originally saw it. :) @Kevin: oh dang, I misread the diff when I originally saw it. :)

]]> By: Kevin Kofler http://ianweller.org/2009/07/03/video-explained/#comment-233 Kevin Kofler Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:05:02 +0000 http://ianweller.org/?p=469#comment-233 Oh, and I just checked: the latest Editor's Draft (July 3, 2009) still mentions the video and audio tags: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#video It just leaves codecs completely unspecified. :-( I've also found the relevant diff: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-diffs/2009Jun/0228.html As you can see, it doesn't comment out all of video and audio, it just removes the parts about codecs. Don't believe everything you read on Slashdot or other oversimplifying news sites. Oh, and I just checked: the latest Editor’s Draft (July 3, 2009) still mentions the video and audio tags:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#video
It just leaves codecs completely unspecified. :-(

I’ve also found the relevant diff:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-diffs/2009Jun/0228.html
As you can see, it doesn’t comment out all of video and audio, it just removes the parts about codecs.

Don’t believe everything you read on Slashdot or other oversimplifying news sites.

]]> By: Kevin Kofler http://ianweller.org/2009/07/03/video-explained/#comment-232 Kevin Kofler Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:47:07 +0000 http://ianweller.org/?p=469#comment-232 Well, that doesn't necessarily stop browsers from implementing it. Firefox already has those tags, as does WebKit, and it looks like Konqueror is getting support for them too: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=124423574015620&w=2 Well, that doesn’t necessarily stop browsers from implementing it. Firefox already has those tags, as does WebKit, and it looks like Konqueror is getting support for them too: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=124423574015620&w=2

]]> By: Ian Weller http://ianweller.org/2009/07/03/video-explained/#comment-237 Ian Weller Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:37:42 +0000 http://ianweller.org/?p=469#comment-237 @Chris: the diff I saw commented out the entire video and audio blocks. :( @Chris: the diff I saw commented out the entire video and audio blocks. :(

]]> By: Chris Tyler http://ianweller.org/2009/07/03/video-explained/#comment-236 Chris Tyler Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:51:46 +0000 http://ianweller.org/?p=469#comment-236 (Note that video wasn't removed, just the codecs) (Note that video wasn’t removed, just the codecs)

]]> By: Sam http://ianweller.org/2009/07/03/video-explained/#comment-235 Sam Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:56:05 +0000 http://ianweller.org/?p=469#comment-235 blarg? it looks flipflooped! fixed: [ianweller] sam_s: and and were dropped from the html 5 standard [ianweller] two days ago * ianweller waits for sam_s to RAAAGE [sam_s] ianweller: what? why the hell would they do that? blarg? it looks flipflooped! fixed:

[ianweller] sam_s: and and were dropped from the html 5 standard
[ianweller] two days ago
* ianweller waits for sam_s to RAAAGE
[sam_s] ianweller: what? why the hell would they do that?

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