[whatwg] Proposal: Media element - add attributes for discovery of playback rate support

[Edward O'Connor]

Hi Ian,

You wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Peter Carlson (carlsop) wrote:
>>
>> Problem: The problem is that the supported playback speeds of a media 
>> element may vary per media item (e.g., an on-demand movie) and as 
[…]
>> Recommendation: We suggest that the application should be able to 
>> discover the available speeds at which it can play the media element. 
[…]
> This seems less good than just having the browsers support all playback 
> speeds, e.g. by decoding into a local buffer. Why would we prefer to 
> expose the media's limitations rather than removing them?

Live streams. Do you really think browsers should have to pause and
buffer a live stream to make it possible to play it in FFWD?


Ted