[whatwg] Start position of media resources

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> I have left the spec as is (except for adding startTime), which means that
> currentTime can be greater than duration if startTime is not zero.


I think it would be safer to have the invariant that 0 <= currentTime <=
duration. Most resources will probably have startTime==0 so authors will
write scripts expecting these invariants, and their scripts will break when
confronted with unusual resources with startTime>0.

So I think a safer design would be to interpret currentTime as relative to
the startTime, perhaps renaming startTime to 'timeOffset' instead?

Rob
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