On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Marco > Schuster<[email protected]> wrote: >> We should not recommend Chrome - as good as it is, but it has serious >> privacy problems. >> Opera is not Open Source, so I think we'd best stay with Firefox, even if >> Chrome/Opera begin to support video tag. > > I don't think we should use these kinds of ideological criteria when > making any sort of recommendation here. We should state in a purely > neutral fashion that browsers X, Y, and Z will result in the video > playing better on your computer than your current browser does. It > would be misleading to imply that Firefox is superior to these other > browsers for the purposes of playing the video tag.
Not every decision is a purely technical. Mozilla has done a lot to support the development of this functionality. Putting other browser developers on equal footing is not an neutral decision either. The ideological, and other, criteria is moot when there is only one thing to recommend. > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Gregory Maxwell<[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds good. Why not recommend Safari plus XiphQT as well, if > the goal is only to tell them what browsers support good <video> > playback? Hm. Two things to install rather than one? For the moment there is also a technical problem with Safari 4: It claims (via the canPlayType() call) that it can't support Ogg even when XiphQT is installed. We currently work around this by detecting the mime-type registration which happens as part of the XiphQT installation. In practice this means that Safari 4 will work with Ogg video on sites using OggHandler, but not on many others. Safari also isn't an especially widely adopted browser outside of apple systems. Should we also recommend the dozens of oddball free geko and webkit based browsers supporting <video/> which are soon to exist? Flooding the users with options is a good way to turn them off. There is already at least one (Midori). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
