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Firefox Audio Fail

You would think that if your browser doesn’t support playing audio/mp3 content using an html5 <audio> tag, it would do the right thing and fall back to the fallback markup under it.

Consider the following html5 markup:

<audio controller=”controller”>
  <source src=”sound.mp3” type=”audio/mp3”>
  <a href=”sound.mp3”>Click here to play audio</a>
</audio> 

I’m just getting started with html5, but it seems to me that a browser should embed an audio controller if sources of type audio/mp3 are supported, and fall back to the link if not.

Firefox (which doesn’t support mp3) embeds the controller, but shows a big red X because it can’t play the file.

So I ask you, internets, am I misinterpreting the standard?