[whatwg] Infinite loopcount for audio and video

[Stefan Haustein]

Hi,

I think in loopcount="forever" the units do not match (no unit / time).

I would prefer "Infinity" because it is a valid ECMAScript literal
(=1/0).  "Indefinite" (=0/0 ?) looks really strange...

Best regards,
Stefan


Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
> loopcount="forever"?  It looks better than "Inf".
> loopcount="-1"?  Is a number, + a static constant for LOOPCOUNT_FOREVER in
> the DOM.
> Not that I consider the exact wording very important anyway.
> Chris
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> Makes sense to me. If such a thing is not already spoken for why not aim 
> toward a little consistency with pre-existing implementations, like in SVG, 
> where it would be repeatCount="indefinite"?
>
> Not my favorite piece of nomenclature ever, but it's out there and has a 
> user-base already.
>
> David
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> From: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo at metalab.unc.edu>
> To: "WHAT WG List" <whatwg at whatwg.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 3:20 PM
> Subject: [whatwg] Infinite loopcount for audio and video
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>> Is there a way to specify continuous looping for audio and video elements?
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>> e.g. something like
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>> <audio src="spacemusic.mp3"
>>   autoplay="autoplay" loopcount="Inf" />
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>> If not, should there be?
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