[whatwg] Video Element Events? - Use Case: Custom Progress Bar

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> I think one problem is that a timer can be set to fire much less often 
> than the current time changes.
> 
> For example the UI doesn't need to be updated more than maybe twice a 
> second for most videos (since it won't move more than one pixel in that 
> time), whereas the timerupdate event sounds like it should fire with the 
> framerate of the video, somewhere around 25-30 times per second.

The spec allows the event to be fired at any rate from 4Hz to 66Hz at the 
moment. I can adjust that range based on implementation experience if that 
would help.

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