[whatwg] <video> element feedback
Lachlan Hunt
lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Tue Mar 20 07:56:49 PDT 2007
Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> I just played some more with our internal implementation (Opera's) and
>> noticed that our pause() really is like togglePause() in the HTML5
>
> Having pause() always pause is better because it means that you're not
> likely to end up in state where the UI says one thing but the UA does
> another (especially when you combine this with UA-provided UI).
Agreed.
> I only included togglePause() because Flash supports it and some people asked for
> it; I'm not convinced we should keep it.
I'm in favour of dropping it. It's an unnecessary API for browsers to
support. It adds nothing that can't be done with play()/pause() and an
if statement.
if (video.state == HTMLVideoElement.PAUSED) {
video.play();
} else {
video.pause();
}
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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