Re: Feedback on MediaController

On Apr 25, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

>>> As currently specified, grouped tracks always autoplay any tracks that 
>>> are labeled autoplay, and those that are not simply don't play (while 
>>> the controller's position advances regardless).
>> 
>>  I think it will be confusing for developers that some tracks in a 
>> group can play while others do not. It seems more logical to me that the 
>> playback state of all elements in a group should be kept in sync.
> 
> I've fixed the playing-when-nothing-is-playing problem, but I strongly 
> disagree that we should always have all the tracks enabled at once. It 
> would be a pain to unhook a media element to stop a track from playing 
> instead of just pausing it.
> 
I definitely didn't mean that we should require all tracks to be enabled at once, only that all enabled tracks in a group should play at the same time.

eric

Received on Monday, 25 April 2011 22:49:48 UTC