Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Matthew Gregan wrote: Is there any reason why PCM in a Wave container has been removed from HTML 5 as a baseline for audio? Having removed everything else in these sections, I figured there wasn't that much value in requiring PCM-in-Wave support. However, I will

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Even if Apple decides to implement Ogg Theora, iPod users will still get QuickTime served and get a better rendering because the common codec is the failsafe solution and will be specified as the last one. This phenomenon is expected to happen for any platform, not just Apple's. I cannot see how

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: I understand that the reason for rejecting MPEG-1 as a fallback mechanism is that the servers will not serve it because of increased bandwidth usage, right? Right. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Hi Ian, I have just posted a detailed reply on your email to public-html (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0830.html), so let me not repeat myself, but only address the things that I haven't already addressed there. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Ian

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread David Singer
Thank you, Ian, for the summary. I just wanted to say that we're not happy with the situation. We continue to monitor it, to take what action we can, and we continue to hope that we will, at some time, find a solution that reaches consensus. -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
Ian Hickson wrote: on the situation regarding codecs for video and audio in HTML5, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship. I have therefore removed the two subsections in the HTML5 spec in which codecs

[whatwg] XHTML namespace and HTML elements

2009-06-30 Thread Olli Pettay
Hi, I wonder what (and where) are the reasons to use XHTML namespace also with HTML elements. The behavior causes few issues like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501312 and http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6777 and http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7059

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Jeff McAdams
Ian Hickson wrote: I considered requiring Ogg Theora support in the spec, since we do have three implementations that are willing to implement it, but it wouldn't help get us true interoperabiliy, since the people who are willing to implement it are willing to do so regardless of the spec, and

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread jjcogliati-whatwg
--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Mikko Rantalainen mikko.rantalai...@peda.net wrote: (2) Specify {Theora or H.264} as the baseline. That way all vendors that have displayed any interest for video could implement the spec. Authors would be required to provide the video in both formats to be sure

Re: [whatwg] XHTML namespace and HTML elements

2009-06-30 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jun 30, 2009, at 15:11, Olli Pettay wrote: I wonder what (and where) are the reasons to use XHTML namespace also with HTML elements. The behavior causes few issues like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501312 and A variant of this corner case already existed with attribute

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Mike Shaver
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: Finally, what is Google/YouTube's official position on this? As I understand it, based on other posts to this mailing list in recent days: Google ships both H.264 and Theora support in Chrome; YouTube only supports H.264, and

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Mikko Rantalainenmikko.rantalai...@peda.net wrote: [snip] Patent licensing issues aside, H.264 would be better baseline codec than Theora. I don't know that I necessarily agree there. H.264 achieves better efficiency (quality/bitrate) than Theora, but it does

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Mike Shaver
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: No one has bothered porting Theora to the TMS320c64x DSP embedded in the OMAP3 CPU used in this handheld device is an obviously surmountable problem. Unless I'm mistaken about the DSP in question, that work is in fact

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Dr. Markus Walther
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Matthew Gregan wrote: Is there any reason why PCM in a Wave container has been removed from HTML 5 as a baseline for audio? Having removed everything else in these sections, I figured there wasn't that much value in requiring PCM-in-Wave support.

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Dr. Markus Walther
Gregory Maxwell wrote: PCM in wav is useless for many applications: you're not going to do streaming music with it, for example. It would work fine for sound effects... The world in which web browsers live is quite a bit bigger than internet and ordinary consumer use combined...

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Assuming bandwidth will increase with technological advance, it seems unreasonable that the bandwidth issue is allowed to block fallback solutions such as PCM within a specification that is expected to live longer than three years from now. IMHO, Chris

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: I considered requiring Ogg Theora support in the spec, since we do have three implementations that are willing to implement it, but it wouldn't help get us true interoperabiliy, since the people who are willing to implement it

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Jeff McAdams
Peter Kasting wrote: As a contributor to multiple browsers, I think it's important to note the distinctions between cases like Acid3 (where IIRC all tests were supposed to test specs that had been published with no dispute for 5 years), much of HTML5 (where items not yet implemented generally

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/6/30 Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com On Jun 30, 2009 2:17 AM, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: 2009/6/30 Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.com On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: I considered requiring Og... Right. Waiting for all

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: As a contributor to multiple browsers, I think it's important to note the distinctions between cases like Acid3 (where IIRC all tests were supposed to test specs that had been published with no dispute for 5 years), much

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Peter Kasting
* I didn't say 5 years from Rec status * Acid3 was meant to be an illustrative example of a case where the test itself was not intentionally introducing new behavior or attempting to force consensus on unwilling vendors, not a perfect analogy to something PK On Jun 30, 2009 12:36 PM, Sam Kuper

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Jeff McAdams
Peter Kasting wrote: There is no other reason to put a codec in the spec -- the primary reason to spec a behavior (to document vendor consensus) does not apply. Some vendors agreed, and some objected violently is not consensus. But Most people agreed, and one or two vendors objected

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/6/30 Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com: * I didn't say 5 years from Rec status No, you didn't; I was being generous. You said something much less meaningful: published with no dispute for 5 years. No dispute from whom? Browser developers and web developers disputed aspects of several of the

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/6/30 Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net: [2] In July 2005, Chris Wilson, the Internet Explorer Platform [...] That should have been: [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2#Microsoft.27s_response

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Joshua Brickner
Jeff McAdams wrote: Peter Kasting wrote: There is no other reason to put a codec in the spec -- the primary reason to spec a behavior (to document vendor consensus) does not apply. Some vendors agreed, and some objected violently is not consensus. But Most people agreed, and one or two

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Peter Kastingpkast...@google.com wrote: This is not a case where vendor consensus is currently possible (despite the apparently naive beliefs on the part of some who think the vendors are merely ignorant and need education on the benefits of codec x or y), and

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:50:31 +0200, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: video itself supports multiple sources, so there's no need for JavaScript to do this. But it does mean we end up with exactly the situation we're in now, with different implementations supporting different codecs and the spec

Re: [whatwg] XHTML namespace and HTML elements

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Olli Pettay wrote: I wonder what (and where) are the reasons to use XHTML namespace also with HTML elements. The main reason was simplification. * Consistency for scripts in HTML and XHTML. For example, a script can now use createElementNS() in both without having

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: - has off-the-shelf decoder hardware chips available decoder hardware for video means that there are software libraries available that use specific hardware in given chips to optimise decoding. It is not a matter of hardware vendors to

Re: [whatwg] Changing postMessage() to allow sending unentangled ports

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Drew Wilson wrote: I'd like to suggest that we allow sending ports that are not entangled (i.e. ports that have been closed) Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 3.7.2 - document.write

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: I have a question about section 3.7.2. Under step 5, it says that it is considered a reentrant invocation of parser if the document.write() method was called from script executing inline. Does this include document.write() calls invoked from user

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Maciej Stachowiakm...@apple.com wrote: I looked into this question with the help of some experts on video decoding and embedded hardware. H.264 decoders are available in the form of ASICs, and many high volume devices use ASICs rather than general-purpose

Re: [whatwg] do not encourage use of small element for legal text

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Andrew W. Hagen wrote: I have a copy of the Constitution of the United States on my web site. That is a legal text. It also qualifies as legalese, a derogatory term. If I were to change it to HTML 5, the current spec encourages me to place the entire Constitution in

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Andrew W. Hagen wrote: That was interesting about the history of the cite element. The import of my proposed change is that it would make the cite element much more useful than it would be than if it were limited to titles. For example, take a page listing numerous

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: * Let a COLOR element have a value DOM property in the DOM that returns a color. .value already does so. * Let a NUMBER element has a value DOM property that returns a number. .valueAsNumber already does so. Actually, the latter use case is

Re: [whatwg] AppCache and javascript url question?

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Michael Nordman wrote: What appcache (if any) should the resulting iframes be associated with? I think per the spec, the answer is none. Is that the correct answer? html manifest='myManifestFile' body script language=JavaScript function frameContents1() { var

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Maciej Stachowiakm...@apple.com wrote: I looked into this question with the help of some experts on video decoding and embedded hardware. H.264 decoders are available in the form of ASICs, and many high

Re: [whatwg] Parsing RFC3339 constructs

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Michael(tm) Smith wrote: It seems pretty clear that there isn't anything else to refer to for the date/time parsing rules -- but to me at least,

Re: [whatwg] Parsing RFC3339 constructs

2009-06-30 Thread Julian Reschke
Ian Hickson wrote: If this was a totally new syntax, I would agree. But as something based on ISO8601 (and thereby also RFC 3339) it appears to be a bad idea to make it less compatible just for that reason. We've seriously simplified the ISO-8601 syntax in many more ways than just this.

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video

2009-06-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Maciej Stachowiakm...@apple.com wrote: For the mobile phones where I have specific knowledge regarding their components, I am not at liberty to disclose that information. Unsurprising but unfortunate. There are other people trying to feel out the implications