- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:10:07 +0200
- To: public-html-a11y@w3.org
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:37:45 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. My position on this is that since it's easy to track what's been played with scripts and I since I haven't seen anything close to an "80% use case", I think that's exactly what should happen. -- Philip Jägenstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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