Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Shadow2531
On 3/1/07, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shadow2531 wrote: On 2/28/07, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opera has some internal expiremental builds with an implementation of a video element. The element exposes a simple API (for the moment) much like the Audio() object: I

Re: [whatwg] [html5] %Pixels; unnecessary

2007-03-01 Thread David Håsäther
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:11:06 +0100, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, David Håsäther wrote: The Pixels parameter entity replacement text should be NUMBER instead of CDATA since the comment says integer representing length in pixels. Also, the entity is only used once

Re: [whatwg] [html5] %Pixels; unnecessary

2007-03-01 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 12:21, David Håsäther wrote: Yes, I didn't know that at the time, and there was a DTD lying around somewhere IIRC. I think you mean http://syntax.whatwg.org/ . It is abandoned. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:27:45 +0100, Shadow2531 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opera has some internal expiremental builds with an implementation of a video element. The element exposes a simple API (for the moment) much like the Audio() object: I think it'd be cool if the video element *just*

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 08:26, Lachlan Hunt wrote: The browser could send along the list of supported MIME types in it's accept header for video formats, like: Accept: application/ogg, video/mpeg, video/mp4, application/mp4, video/quicktime, */*;q=0.1 Content negotiation is like a box of

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Anne van Kesteren wrote: I'm not sure what fallback has to do with interoperability. Fallback allows text mode browsers or video plugins that do not support a given codec to access the essential information. Hence it makes for a form of communication interoperable with a wide range of devices.

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Bjoern Hoehrmann: Opera has some internal expiremental builds with an implementation of a video element. The element exposes a simple API (for the moment) much like the Audio() object: play() pause() stop() May I suggest Opera does not implement

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Shadow2531: I think it'd be cool if the video element *just* supported theora. It's an interesting proposal. Traditionally, HTML/CSS hasn't said anything about which image/icon formats to support. Given, however, that (a) our ultimate goal is interoperability and that (b) many

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 1 Mar 2007, at 11:56, Anne van Kesteren wrote: That's one of the reasons a dedicated element is better than reusing the object element. All the new video specific APIs would otherwise have to be defined for all possible things the object element can represent (images, nested browser

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Håkon Wium Lie wrote: I think we want to make video a first class citizen of the web. Arguably it already is. It just hasn't been implemented in a easy-to-author, UA-interoperable, or end-user accessible fashion. That means, IMHO, that there must be a simple way to add video to HTML pages.

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Spartanicus
Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opera has some internal expiremental builds with an implementation of a video element. I've observed widespread frustration amongst authors on how to offer audio and/or video on web pages. Quite a few have started using Flash since apparently it takes

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Gervase Markham
Spartanicus wrote: Another current common frustration amongst authors is how to get file based media files to play before they've been fully downloaded. This is currently achieved by using text based redirector files containing the url to the actual media file, but these redirector formats have

Re: [whatwg] OBJECT as a link target?

2007-03-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: often a page needs to interact with a plugin and tell it to load another file. Today this is of course done with JavaScript, which is difficult because most plugins have different JS interfaces, and there are also differences between the

Re: [whatwg] Ideas regarding Web Applications 1.0

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
- Original Message - From: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: WHAT WG List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [whatwg] Ideas regarding Web Applications 1.0 On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote:

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Shadow2531
On 3/1/07, Håkon Wium Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also sprach Shadow2531: I think it'd be cool if the video element *just* supported theora. It's an interesting proposal. Traditionally, HTML/CSS hasn't said anything about which image/icon formats to support. Given, however, that (a) our