- From: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:20:11 -0800
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Why is it OK to set the volume to zero but it is an error to set the playback rate to zero? The spec says the following about "volume" [1]: The volume attribute must return the playback volume of any audio portions of the media element, in the range 0.0 (silent) to 1.0 (loudest). It says the following about "playbackRate" [2]: The attribute is mutable, but on setting, if the new value is 0.0, a NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR exception must be raised instead of the value being changed. How is this helpful? Further, why is it OK to set the rate to 0.00001 but an error to set it to 0 when there is no real difference between the two from the user's perspective? eric [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#dom-media-volume [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#dom-media-playbackrate
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