[whatwg] Remove addCueRange/removeCueRanges

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Max Romantschuk wrote:
> Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Precision is influenced more strongly by the temporal resolution of 
> > the decoding pipeline rather than the polling resolution for 
> > currentTime. I doubt the previous implementations of "start" and "end" 
> > gave you a 3 sample accurate resolution even for wav files.
> 
> I'll chime in here, having done extensive work with audio and video 
> codecs. With current codec implementations getting sample- or 
> frame-accurate resolution is largely a pipe dream. (Outside of the realm 
> of platforms dedicated to content production and playback.) Especially 
> for video there can be several seconds between keyframes, frame-accurate 
> jumps requiring complex buffering tricks.
> 
> A reasonable forward-compatible solution would be to allow (by whichever 
> method settled upon) millisecond-resolution to be specified for 
> setting/resetting from where/to play the clip. User agents could 
> implement a best-effort, not needing to guarantee any specific 
> resolution at this point.

As far as I can tell, HTML5 already allows this.

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