[whatwg] Infinite loopcount for audio and video

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:32:57 +0200, ddailey <ddailey at zoominternet.net>  
wrote:
> 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.

Given that language is already spelled wrong remarkably often introducing  
indefinite as attribute value might not be a good idea. Besides that, the  
WHATWG specification already breaks with the SMIL model so just copying  
some bits doesn't seem like a good justification for consistency.


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