Re: [whatwg] element proposal

[Gervase Markham]

James Graham wrote:
Widespread deployment (despite not working in many situations Flash has 
close enough to 100% of the desktop market for content producers to 
ignore the rest). In practice this means at least two things. Firstly, 
browser manufacturers without significant in-house video expertise 
should be able to implement the spec using an external library. Secondly 
it means that we should be able to implement it in existing versions of 
IE somehow.

A good point. I know nothing about extending IE; would it be possible to 
have an IE addon which implemented support for a <video> tag, or would 
it need to be a plugin and therefore use <object>-style markup?

While it's not as neat in spec terms, if it makes the difference between 
"IE can't support it" and "IE can support it with additional software", 
then a carefully defined subset of <object> might be a better route than 
a new tag. Something like "Any object tag with the following attributes 
exactly should be treated in the following fashion..." (and from then on 
pretend it's a <video> tag).

Gerv