Explore replacing SVG 1.2 Video and Audio support with HTML5 Video and Audio tags

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Through private discussions with most SVG implementors it seems like they
are not going to implement the SVG 1.2 Video and Audio tags. We should
explore removing support for the SVG 1.2 Video and Audio tags and instead
support using foreignObject to support the HTML5 Video and Audio tags,
including supporting the HTML5 Video and Audio JS APIs. Pseudocode:

<svg>
  <foreignObject>
    <video src="foobar.mp4"></video>
  </foreignObject>
</svg>

We don't support the JS bindings or SMIL bindings for SVG 1.2 Video and
Audio anyway, and folks can't really use them since none of the SVG native
browsers support them or plan to support them.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bradneub...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2009 at 11:55

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Original comment by bradneub...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2009 at 11:57

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Can you elaborate on why most SVG implementors are not going implement SVG 
audio and
video tags?

I've wondered why Opera has not done so, even though they demonstrated SVG video
capability well over a year ago.

Original comment by yer...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2010 at 7:04

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I've talked with most of the SVG folks with the different browsers and it 
doesn't seem like they are too 
pumped about the SVG 1.2 media elements. In general, the industry look like its 
tipping over to HTML5 video 
and audio.

Original comment by bradneub...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2010 at 5:45

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Opera HAVE implemented SVG audio - Opera uses SVG Tiny 1.2. It's still there, 
since the SVG audio widget I made for my site still works. Are you absolutely 
certain about this? Would this not require a change in the SVG spec?

Original comment by corey.mw...@googlemail.com on 10 Dec 2010 at 5:55