> On 11 Jan 2016, at 14:12 , Robert Park <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Pardon my ignorance, buy can you not just check which codecs are installed/in
> use and then make the right decisions based on that? It is a really bad
> practice to write code that says "desktops be like this while phones be like
> that" because you never know when one day a new device might come along that
> shatters your expectations.
>
> Feature detection > device detection
>
I agree with the sentiment. But how would I, from a confined process, work out
what’s installed? I won’t even be allowed to look there.
I guess I can conclude that, if I’m not allowed to look, I’m confined. And, if
I’m allowed to look, use what I can see. But it also seems a very round-about
way of figuring this out.
The real question actually is “If I thumbnail from an audio or video file, will
I be using the android/hybris hardware codecs or a software codec?”
But there is no API for that either, as far as I know.
Michi.
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