[whatwg] Apple Proposal for Timed Media Elements

[Nicholas Shanks]

On 22 Mar 2007, at 00:08, Maciej Stachowiak proposed:

> CSS Timed Media Module
> HTML Timed Media Elements

• On volume:

The volume property is currently inconsistent in the string names  
defined:
http://webkit.org/specs/Timed_Media_CSS.html#propdef-volume
Value: reads "silent | soft | medium | loud | x-loud" but the  
definitions below use the terms "silent, low, medium, high, full- 
volume".
I think this should match css3-speech's voice-volume property:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/#voice-volume

Volume has the range 0-100 in the DOM interface, but 0.0-1.0 in CSS.  
These should be consistent (I favour zero to one and allowing  
percentages).
You may also want to name it media-volume, on analogy with voice- 
volume. (or change css3-speech to use just "volume")

• On media state:

I think that the ERROR state attribute should have a value of -1 not  
+1 since it is a worse state than uninitalised—you know it's bad  
rather that being unsure (and the state constants be defined as  
signed rather than unsigned)
http://webkit.org/specs/HTML_Timed_Media_Elements.html#state-attributes

Should the DOM attribute be called mediaStatus or mediaState? I think  
the terminology should match regardless of whether status or state is  
used.
Should media-play-state be renamed to avoid confusion with values for  
mediaStatus?

- Nicholas.
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