Add a callback for detecting video support. about html5media HOT 3 CLOSED

I was the one who suggested this, but as I experimented with it I ran into a practical issue with at least one approach. As a test, I did this:

  each(document.getElementsByTagName(tag), function(media) {
    var requiresFallback = true;
    var isAndroid = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().search("android") > -1;
+   var isChrome = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().search("chrome") > -1;
    function canPlayFormat(format) {
+     if (isChrome) return false;
        return media.canPlayType(format) || (isAndroid && format.search("mp4") > -1);
      }

The problem is that, at least in Chrome, html5media doesn't rewrite the DOM before Chrome starts preloading. Furthermore, once it does rewrite it (deleting the

Maybe the forced flash fallback would have to happen before domready, but that doesn't seem very elegant.

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Ouch! You gotta hate browsers sometimes!

I think this is a catch-22 problem. The video tag cannot be manipulated until it arrives in the DOM, and once it's arrived in the DOM, it's too late to do anything before the file starts downloading!

Unless there's some sort of global callback supplied by the browser for whenever a video file starts downloading, there's no way to stop this happening. >(

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I'm closing this as a wontfix. As browser html5 video support improves, this problem will go away.

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