- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:37:45 +1000
- To: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:51:00 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: >>> >>> Since HTMLMediaElement.played seems almost useless I haven't implemented >>> it in Opera. I still have hopes that it will be removed from the spec, >>> but failing that let's not copy it around unless we have a good use case >>> for it. >> >> The use case Silvia suggests seems reasonable (marking on the timeline >> what has been played), why is it not good? > > I've boycotted HTMLMediaElement.played by not implementing it and so far > I've never heard a single request for it. I've also never seen controls that > expose what has already been played, only what is currently buffered. I know > this has been discussed before, but I can't find it in the archives. Then > the use case was something like showing or not showing ads depending on what > had been watched, I think. IMO, in the absence of compelling use cases it > should be removed from both HTMLMediaElement and MediaController. One thing > speaking against that is that it's already implemented in WebKit, of course. Oh, the use case of ads is probably better. FAIK nobody has yet implemented a library of ad playing for HTML5 video, which may be why you haven't seen a request yet. From what I've heard, the online video platform providers are waiting for the ad platform providers to get there. Silvia.
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