[whatwg] Video

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Aug 3 23:14:01 PDT 2007


On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> 
> I guess I wasn't paying attention when the Audio interface was being 
> discussed, because I totally missed it.
> 
> Looking at it now, I'd make some alterations to it.
> 
> For example, there's a difference between "pausing" and "stopping".  
> (With "pausing" you still have your "position" and a "velocity" in the 
> audio stream.  With "stopping", each of those are null/nil.)  And there 
> should be different procedures for each.

This is now fixed.


> Also, there should be a way of playing at different speeds and playing 
> backwards too.

Done.


> Also... when implementing UIs, it's useful to have a "toggle()" 
> procedure. Something that makes it "pause" if it is "playing".  And 
> makes it "play" if it is "pausing".  Without this you have to keep track 
> of the state of the player.

This is now relatively easy to do.

Cheers,
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