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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:13:57 +0200
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> A client has a MP4 video they want to play in a browser. […]
> Is this
> 
> function supports_video() {
>    return !!document.createElement('video').canPlayType;
> }
> 
> from
> 
> <http://fortuito.us/diveintohtml5/detect.html#video-formats>
> 
> a valid way test for support for the video format?

No.


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var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
    navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
    && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
)  // Plone, register_function.js:16