Re: [whatwg] element proposal

[Gervase Markham]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
Restricting the types of content that the <video> element can handle 
will stifle future innovation, and will likely be ignored by browser 
vendors who decide they would like to support new formats. It would also 
be unprecedented relative to type restrictions on other HTML elements. 
Having a baseline set of formats is something to consider, but the spec 
should allow supporting any format that can reasonably considered video.

Indeed. There's a big difference between mandating a baseline set of 
formats and stating that these are the _only_ formats that may be 
supported. Let's definitely do the former, and definitely not do the 
latter (and if we did, browser makers would probably ignore us 
eventually anyway).

Gerv