Comments on: This Week in HTML 5: Video tag changes http://ajaxian.com/archives/twih-video-tag-changes Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Spocke http://ajaxian.com/archives/twih-video-tag-changes/comment-page-1#comment-269345 Spocke Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:07:05 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5153#comment-269345 Hmm, codecs and canPlayType gives me flashbacks to the insane mess codecs for Windows Media Player where before I stopped using it and stated using VLC or mplayer. If this mess comes to the web it's a step backwards. I think why FLV and Flash have become so popular is that it's just one format, one vendor and no mess it works the same way in all browsers. Also I think it will be hard for companies like Microsoft to adapt Ogg in favor of their own wmv and wma formats. Hmm, codecs and canPlayType gives me flashbacks to the insane mess codecs for Windows Media Player where before I stopped using it and stated using VLC or mplayer. If this mess comes to the web it’s a step backwards. I think why FLV and Flash have become so popular is that it’s just one format, one vendor and no mess it works the same way in all browsers. Also I think it will be hard for companies like Microsoft to adapt Ogg in favor of their own wmv and wma formats.

]]> By: TNO http://ajaxian.com/archives/twih-video-tag-changes/comment-page-1#comment-269292 TNO Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:17:25 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5153#comment-269292 Wont forget... . What if IE9 says maybe, FireFox says probably, Safari says probably, opera says maybe and Chrome says Probably. . Now lets say hypothetically with those answers this happens: IE9 fails FireFox plays Safari plays Opera fails and Chrome lied about its answer and fails . Can you imagine the code you would need to branch for that? Wont forget…
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What if IE9 says maybe, FireFox says probably, Safari says probably, opera says maybe and Chrome says Probably.
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Now lets say hypothetically with those answers this happens:
IE9 fails
FireFox plays
Safari plays
Opera fails
and Chrome lied about its answer and fails
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Can you imagine the code you would need to branch for that?

]]> By: tj111 http://ajaxian.com/archives/twih-video-tag-changes/comment-page-1#comment-269290 tj111 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:55:03 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5153#comment-269290 <code> //this if (video.canPlayType(video.type)) { video.play(); } else { alert("too bad") } //versus this switch(video.canPlayType(video.type)) { case "probably": video.play(); break; case "maybe": if (video.play()) break; case "no": alert("too bad") break; } </code> Can't wait... If this is how it get implemented, every library will just provide custom boolean wrapper functions for this, no one want's to do string detection.
//this
if (video.canPlayType(video.type)) {
video.play();
} else {
alert("too bad")
}

//versus this
switch(video.canPlayType(video.type)) {
case "probably":
video.play();
break;

case "maybe":
if (video.play()) break;

case "no":
alert("too bad")
break;
}

Can’t wait…

If this is how it get implemented, every library will just provide custom boolean wrapper functions for this, no one want’s to do string detection.

]]> By: funtomas http://ajaxian.com/archives/twih-video-tag-changes/comment-page-1#comment-269285 funtomas Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:29:51 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5153#comment-269285 HTML gets fuzzy in the fifth incarnation. The verbose value set spelling out their meaning might be good when read by human but it's not the case in most cases and this solution will require an obscure evaluation on js programmer side. Integer values would do that job too. HTML gets fuzzy in the fifth incarnation. The verbose value set spelling out their meaning might be good when read by human but it’s not the case in most cases and this solution will require an obscure evaluation on js programmer side.
Integer values would do that job too.

]]> By: TNO http://ajaxian.com/archives/twih-video-tag-changes/comment-page-1#comment-269282 TNO Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:07:45 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5153#comment-269282 One thing I never understood is why html designers don't use True/False. If an element returns to me maybe or probably I for one will assume that means true and give it a shot anyway and see if it blows up. One thing I never understood is why html designers don’t use True/False.
If an element returns to me maybe or probably I for one will assume that means true and give it a shot anyway and see if it blows up.

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