hixie: Clarify 'stall' to be less ambiguous about when it fires. (whatwg r5322)

hixie: Clarify 'stall' to be less ambiguous about when it fires. (whatwg
r5322)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4241&r2=1.4242&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5321&to=5322

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4241
retrieving revision 1.4242
diff -u -d -r1.4241 -r1.4242
--- Overview.html 23 Aug 2010 23:45:37 -0000 1.4241
+++ Overview.html 24 Aug 2010 00:33:52 -0000 1.4242
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@
 
    <h1>HTML5</h1>
    <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2>
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-23-august-2010">Editor's Draft 23 August 2010</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-24-august-2010">Editor's Draft 24 August 2010</h2>
    <dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
     <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/</a></dd>
     <dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
   Group</a> is the W3C working group responsible for this
   specification's progress along the W3C Recommendation
   track.
-  This specification is the 23 August 2010 Editor's Draft.
+  This specification is the 24 August 2010 Editor's Draft.
   </p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- relationship to other work (required) --><p>Work on this specification is also done at the <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/">WHATWG</a>. The W3C HTML working group
   actively pursues convergence with the WHATWG, as required by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter">W3C HTML working
   group charter</a>.</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- required patent boilerplate --><p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5
@@ -21309,9 +21309,12 @@
     is <em>least</em> frequent, <a href="#queue-a-task">queue a task</a> to
     <a href="#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> named <code title="event-media-progress"><a href="#event-media-progress">progress</a></code> at the element.</p>
 
-    <p>If at any point the user agent has received no data for more
-    than about three seconds, then <a href="#queue-a-task">queue a task</a> to
-    <a href="#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> named <code title="event-media-stalled"><a href="#event-media-stalled">stalled</a></code> at the element.</p>
+    <p>The <dfn id="stall-timeout">stall timeout</dfn> is a user-agent defined length of
+    time, which should be about three seconds. When a <a href="#media-element">media
+    element</a> that is actively attempting to obtain <a href="#media-data">media
+    data</a> has failed to receive any data for a duration equal to
+    the <a href="#stall-timeout">stall timeout</a>, the user agent must <a href="#queue-a-task">queue a
+    task</a> to <a href="#fire-a-simple-event">fire a simple event</a> named <code title="event-media-stalled"><a href="#event-media-stalled">stalled</a></code> at the element.</p>
 
     <p>User agents may allow users to selectively block or slow
     <a href="#media-data">media data</a> downloads. When a <a href="#media-element">media

Received on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:34:42 UTC