I already entered this via Safari's built in bug report system but was told that no one ever looked at those reports, so here it is again. Version is Safari 4.0.2 (530.19.1) In short, canPlayType returns maybe when it should be probably and vice versa. See also http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-July/020971.html
This bug was written up and fixed within hours of your email: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27186 We definitely pay attention to bug reports! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 27186 ***
(In reply to comment #1) > This bug was written up and fixed within hours of your email: > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27186 > > We definitely pay attention to bug reports! > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 27186 *** Oops, seems the search only finds open bugs by default, or I would have found the original. Good to see I was misinformed about those bug reports!