Re: [media] a first draft JavaScript API for multitrack media

Ah that works, too.
Thanks,
Silvia.

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On 18/02/2010, at 3:04 PM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Eric Carlson  
>> <eric.carlson@apple.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   I think "media" is only useful in markup. It allows the content  
>>> author to
>>> describe the characteristics of a resource, and it is used by the  
>>> UA to
>>> choose the most appropriate resource from a group of alternates  
>>> for a user's
>>> stated needs/preferences.  In other words, I don't think "media"  
>>> is an
>>> intrinsic property of the resource so we dont' need to expose it  
>>> in this API
>>
>> Ah, so it basically inherits the @media attribute from the video
>> source. Would it maybe make sense, for reasons of exposing the same
>> API across internal and external tracks, to return the video source's
>> @media value in a track's media query if that attribute is read on an
>> internal track?
>>
>   I am suggesting that we don't want a 'media' property in the API  
> at all, it is only useful in the markup.
>
> eric

Received on Thursday, 18 February 2010 05:39:57 UTC