[whatwg] Assigning media resources represented as DOM objects to a media element

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:

> a) This isn't the case.  The tricky bit was defining precisely when
> autorevocation happens; this has been resolved (the "global script clean-up
> jobs list").  There's a remaining piece (
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17765), but while it'll
> take some thought to do that in a clean way (so it can be applied to
> different APIs concisely), there's nothing magic there.
>

Serves me right for checking the latest published version instead of the
real spec... Sorry.

It may be that "there's nothing magic there", but in comment #17 Ian seems
less than enthusiastic ("this is nuts, IMHO").

Even if you get past that, you still have the problem that revoked URLs are
useless. It's impossible to do something equivalent to video2.src =
video1.src (which works today). Also, getting access to the underlying
source object is a valuable feature, especially for MediaStream and
MediaSource objects which have interesting APIs on them.

Rob
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