[whatwg] Timestamp from video source in order to sync (e.g. expose OGG timestamp to javascript)

[Philip Jägenstedt]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:15:00 +0200, Chris Double  
<chris.double at double.co.nz> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> It's too late, all scripted controls for <video> that display a  
>> timeline are
>> already using the duration property.
>
> And they're probably using it as a duration not an end time. Doesn't
> this change cause problems?

It can't in Opera, since currentTime will always start at 0 (modulo bugs).  
Is there any browser that really intends to let currentTime start at an  
offset, and why? If so, I suppose that the seek knob will start somewhere  
in the middle and that any attempt to seek to before that point will just  
seek to that non-zero offset. That's a pretty weird UI and one reason I  
think the timeline should always be normalized, whatever the timestamps or  
other metadata of the resource itself says.

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software