[whatwg] Small inconsistencies in video events

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
> I was just writing some tests for various events and noticed that 
> there's a slight weirdness in the events fired for readyState 
> transitions. If readyState changes from HAVE_CURRENT_DATA to 
> HAVE_FUTURE_DATA, the element is then potentially playing, and then 
> readyState changes to HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA, we fire "canplay", "playing", 
> "canplay" again, "canplaythrough" and "playing" again. OTOH if 
> readyState changes from HAVE_CURRENT_DATA directly to HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA 
> and the element is potentially playing, then we fire "canplay", 
> "canplaythrough", and "playing".
> 
> I think we should fire the same set of events in the same order whether 
> we transition through HAVE_FUTURE_DATA or not. So, I suggest that a 
> transition from HAVE_FUTURE_DATA to HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA should not fire 
> "canplay" or "playing". Also, a transition from HAVE_CURRENT_DATA to 
> HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA should fire "canplaythrough" after we've handled 
> autoplay and potentially fired "playing".

I've tried to make this much more consistent. You were definitely right 
that there were far too many duplicate and out-of-order events before.

Please let me know if the new spec is still doing silly things.

Thanks,
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