On Wednesday 14 April 2010 9:34:07 am Al Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Tom Hacohen wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Joachim Ott > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Check your other browsers on http://html5test.com/ (not my site) > > > > I really hope it's not your site, as this site is bullocks. > > Few examples: > > > > 1. They check for "H.264 codec support" in the video section - This is > > not part of the standard, and hopefully it will never be > > this is a propieatry codec. It's like saying Symbian and SHR are bad > > > > because they don't support "iPhone applications". > > > > 2. They check for mp3/aac support - read comment #1 just above. > > > > Other than that, I'm not an expert in web design, so I really can't say > > > > what else is bullocks, > > > > but it takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch, and I found two... > > That's an open bug on their tracker. Whether it's right or not depends on > which hat you're wearing at the time. With my FOSS supporter hat on I can > agree with you. With my standards purist hat on I would say it shouldn't > check codecs at all, as they aren't in the standard. As an end user > wanting to know the capabilities of my browser I would want to know all > the codecs it supports.
I think the reason they test for H.264, MP3/AAC is because Apple, and a couple of other compainies that are behind the push for HTML5, doesn't like the OGG codics there for they don't have support for them in their web browsers. Safari 4 won't play OGG media even if it is used in the <audio> or <video> tags but it will do MP4. I see at the bottom of the page that it is being developed my Github, which I assume is more concerned about testing browsers abilities rather than testing for standards report, maybe if they flag which tests is non HTML 5 standarnd complant?
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