Re: <video> feedback

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:16:25 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:11:53 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > It seems more predictable and useful to fire an error event at the
>> > > media element at the point you find a <source> (or <video src>) that
>> > > is not supported. (Also more consistent with <img> -- without a
>> > > src="" you don't get an error event.) error.code could say
>> > > MEDIA_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED instead, and the MediaError interface could
>> > > gain another attribute (say error.src) that is set to the value of
>> > > .currentSrc at the time the error occurred. (Since the algorithm is
>> > > async authors can't just look at .currentSrc since it might have
>> > > changed before the event handler looks at it.)
>> >
>> > The idea of the error event in this particular case is to let the page
>> > show a message, which would be overridden by the loadedmetadata
>> > event's handler, or some such. I suppose we could just fire an event
>> > for each unsupported resource, though... what are the other use cases?
>>
>> Maybe the message would contain pointers to codecs for the failed
>> videos.
>
> I've made the algorithm fire 'error' events at the <source> element
> (without changing the current rules about the media element).
>
> Does that work?

No, sorry; please revert that change.

The above was not properly thought through and doesn't actually solve the problem we were trying to solve.

See instead point 3 in http://www.w3.org/mid/op.ur32svy5atwj1d@sisko.linkoping.osa and reply http://www.w3.org/mid/op.usdtzjm1atwj1d@sisko.linkoping.osa

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:09:35 UTC