On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Odin Omdal Hørthe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odin.omdal@gmail.com">odin.omdal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Justin Dolske's idea looks rather nice:<br>
> This seems like a somewhat unfortunate thing for the spec, I bet everyone's<br>
> going to get it wrong because it won't be common. :( I can't help but wonder if<br>
> it would be better to have a startTimeOffset property, so that .currentTime et<br>
> al are all still have a timeline starting from 0, and if you want the "real"<br>
> time you'd use .currentTime + .startTimeOffset.<br>
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> I'd also suspect we'll want the default video controls to normalize everything<br>
> to 0 (.currentTime - .startTime), since it would be really confusing otherwise.<br></blockquote><div> </div></div>That's exactly what I've advocated before. I lost the argument, but I forget why, probably because I didn't understand the reasons.<br clear="all">
<br>Rob<br>-- <br>"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]<br>