On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Aryeh Gregor<simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > * We could support <video>/<audio> on conformant user agents without > the use of JavaScript. There's no reason we should need JS for > Firefox 3.5, Chrome 3, etc.
Of course, that could be done without switching the rest of the site to HTML5... Although I'm not sure that giving the actual video tags is desirable. It's a tradeoff: Work for those users when JS is enabled and correctly handle saving the full page including the videos vs take more traffic from clients doing range requests to generate the poster image, and potentially traffic from clients which decide to go ahead and fetch the whole video regardless of the user asking for it. There is also still a bug in FF3.5 that where the built-in video controls do not work when JS is fully disabled. (Because the controls are written in JS themselves) (To be clear to other people reading this the mediawiki ogghandler extension already uses HTML5 and works fine with Firefox 3.5, etc. But this only works if you have javascript enabled. The site could instead embed the video elements directly, and only use JS to substitute the video tag for fallbacks when it detects that the video tag can't be used) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
