On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:12 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/8 Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Uh, it's not a good option for Wikimedia video. > >> With XiphQT, why not? Maybe not ideal, but surely "good". > > > As Greg has noted, due to a bug in Safari it's impossible for the > browser at present to indicate that it can handle Ogg or not. > > So how do we tell if the Safari user can use that or if they have to > download XiphQT? There isn't a way at present. Either we shove Safari > on Mac users onto Cortado by default (since Java can be presumed > present on MacOS X) or we risk giving them a <video> element that > doesn't work. > > (Unless the failure can somehow be sniffed.)
Well *we* do. As a side effect of installing XiphQT a mime type is registered. This is completely independent of the video tag. So we'll detect this and use it anyways. I believe we're the only users of video whom have ever done this. It's not obvious, and I doubt we'd be doing it were it not for the fact that that detection method was previously used for detecting pre-video availability of XiphQT. (FWIW, that behaviour is now fixed in their development builds) Regardless, I think we've finished the technical part of this decision— the details are a matter of organization concern now, not technology. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
