David Gerard wrote:
> The work-around I'm aware of is for site authors to check if
> you're running on the iPhone in javascript, and rewrite the video
> elements to normal anchors with a custom schema, e.g.
> 
>  <a href="oggplayer://example.com/file.ogv">Click here to watch in
> Ogg Player</a>.
> 
> Then, if the user has installed the Ogg Player app, which registers
> itself has handling the 'oggplayer' schama, Safari will pass the
> custom uri to it, and it can download/stream/whathaveyou.

*nod* doable in theory.

We could potentially bundle Theora playing with our iPhone native app 
(not yet released!), assuming it'll run ok on the little ARM processor. 
:) Don't expect it in the first release though unless you want to code 
it up yourself... if you do, hit up Hampton at hcat...@wikimedia.org :)

-- brion

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