[whatwg] Remove addCueRange/removeCueRanges

[Max Romantschuk]

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.

   Regards,
Max Romantschuk

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