Re: Instantaneous metadata cues

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:32 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that one should see an exit event for every enter event.
>>
>> I am less convinced one should see enter/exit pairs for times that did not
>> get 'sampled'.  For a start, you can drive a system crazy by putting 'too
>> many cues too close'.
>
>
> That's different, though, as I said--in the normal case that shouldn't
> happen.
>
> The text in the current spec does seem to handle this correctly, allowing
> browsers to skip if they need to but not dropping cue events unnecessarily.
> (Apparently there are old spec versions still present on old URLs, lying in
> wait to bite those of us who navigate the spec using browser history...)

If you have a proposal for change on this, you should address it to
the WHATWG or public-html. The raising of events is definitely part of
the media element spec, but not of the WebVTT spec.

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 05:14:29 UTC