On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Eric Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hard coding the type is only possible if the element uses a <source> > element, @type isn't allowed on <audio> or <video>.
Why isn't type allowed for <video> and <audio>? I know it doesn't strictly make sense (since the tag doesn't have a type per-se), but perhaps it could be an alias for the current item's type, much in the same way src is the current source. > It isn't hard to update a server if you control it, but it can be *very* > difficult and time consuming if you don't (as is the case with most web > developers, I assume). Correct - but being able to manually specify "type" should be fine for those situations, since that can be written into the HTML itself. > Really? Your company specializes in web video and flv files have been > around for years, but your own server still isn't configured for it: Thanks for the heads up on this. However, I think this reemphasizes my original point: The Flash platform *isn't* strict about MIME types, so we've never bothered to do anything about it.
