New video element

Issue: Justification for adding the "video" element.

Details: video is for multimedia content. It provides an API so application authors can script their own user interface, but there is also a way to trigger a user interface provided by the user agent. source elements are used together with these elements if there are multiple streams available of different types.

Rationale: Why this Element Should be Added

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Rationale: Why this Element Should Not be Added

Aurélien Levy: accessibility of video element

1. Issue: Is there a way to have synchronized caption and audiodescription on a video element (except from a directly embed caption or audiodescription in the video itself) or is the media + source element here to achieve things like that? Why did you not take the SMIL audio, SMIL text and SMIL video elements?
   • issue raised by Aurélien Levy, in a post to public-html, 2 July 2007
     • reference 1: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)
     • reference 2: HTML5 Working Draft Definition of VIDEO Element

Bugs Logged Against VIDEO

• <audio> and <video> do not have sufficient support for synchronized accessibility content (Bug 5758)

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Related References

• Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)
  • SMIL audio element
  • SMIL text element
  • SMIL video element
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Related E-mail: July 2007

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• accessibility of video element - Aurélien Levy (2 July 2007)

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