HTML5's audio/video and Markdown

[Shawn Medero]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Aslak Raanes <aslakr at gmail.com> wrote:


> Does anyone have any toughts on how one should be using <video> &

>  <audio> with Markdown? Using the link or the img syntax?

>

>  Maybe:

>

>      [a film](film.m4v)

>      [an audio](audio.mp3)

>

>  could create:

>

>      <video src="film.m4v" controls><a href="film.m4v">a film</a></

>  video>

>      <audio src="audio.mp4" controls><a href="audio.m4v">an audio</a></

>  audio>


I think you would need the same approach Markdown takes with images
today - a unique syntax structure. Overloading one syntax structure
(<object>) to support multiple complex mime-types is very tricky and
it is one of the main reasons why HTML 5 has new elements for audio &
video.

(Of course this is also one of the most argued over parts of the HTML
5 spec but I've yet to see any proposal for fixing the gigantic mess
that <object> has left us with.)

-s