Firefox 3.5 was released Tuesday. And you might have noticed this story from Slashdot.
Now, the issue has been explained in true Internet fashion (via my friend Sam):
Firefox 3.5 was released Tuesday. And you might have noticed this story from Slashdot.
Now, the issue has been explained in true Internet fashion (via my friend Sam):
blarg? it looks flipflooped! fixed:
[ianweller] sam_s: and and were dropped from the html 5 standard
[ianweller] two days ago
* ianweller waits for sam_s to RAAAGE
[sam_s] ianweller: what? why the hell would they do that?
(Note that video wasn’t removed, just the codecs)
@Chris: the diff I saw commented out the entire video and audio blocks. :(
Well, that doesn’t necessarily stop browsers from implementing it. Firefox already has those tags, as does WebKit, and it looks like Konqueror is getting support for them too: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=124423574015620&w=2
Oh, and I just checked: the latest Editor’s Draft (July 3, 2009) still mentions the video and audio tags:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#video
It just leaves codecs completely unspecified. :-(
I’ve also found the relevant diff:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-diffs/2009Jun/0228.html
As you can see, it doesn’t comment out all of video and audio, it just removes the parts about codecs.
Don’t believe everything you read on Slashdot or other oversimplifying news sites.
@Kevin: oh dang, I misread the diff when I originally saw it. :)