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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:09:10 +0200
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> On 23/04/2012 9:13 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Oops, I meant, testing for support of the video element.

I have nothing to add at this time.


PointedEars
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