[whatwg] MediaController feedback

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Jer Noble wrote:
> >> 
> >> The overall purpose of the modifications is to achieve the following: 
> >> when controller.play() is called, all slaved media elements 
> >> unconditionally will begin playing.
> > 
> > I don't think this is a good idea. If the user has paused one of the 
> > slaves, and then pauses and resumes the whole thing, the paused media 
> > element shouldn't resume. It should remain paused.

(I meant author, not user, here.)


> With JavaScript, it's certainly possible for a page author to play() or 
> pause() a slaved media element directly, but that author could just as 
> easily remove the media element from the media group / media controller.
>
> > [...]
> > 
> > That only works if there's JavaScript doing the removing. The idea 
> > here is that this should all work even without any JS, just with UA 
> > UI.
> 
> With just the UA UI, the behavior would be exactly the same [...]

If you remove the element from the media controller, the media 
controller's timeline changes.

It'll be quite common for there to be videos that are not currently 
playing, e.g. sign-language tracks. If we change anything here, I think it 
would be the currently required UI behaviour which requires all the videos 
to start playing when the user overrides the JS-provided controls and just 
uses the UA controls.

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