On Wed, 16 May 2012 03:50:21 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiff...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Odin Hørthe Omdal <odi...@opera.com>
wrote:
I'm not sure. What do you think? As far as I've seen, you're highly
knowledgeable about <video>. Why do we have mediaqueries on video
element?
Do we have a use case page?
Hehe, thanks. :-) But media queries were in <video> before I arrived,
so I missed the whole discussion around it and how it got there. Some
of the browsers that implement support for it should speak up.
We have supported the media attribute since the first stable release with
<video> (Opera 10.50) and Git blames me. However, I must say that I just
added it because it was in the spec and don't remember any discussion
about it. Some digging shows that it was added to the spec in
<http://html5.org/r/724>, but I don't know why.
As far as I can tell, it's mostly useless and I've never heard of it
actually being used. The correct way to handle different screen sizes and
bandwidth constraints is adaptive streaming. Simon Pieters has suggested
simply dropping the attribute and I would not object to that.
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
