- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:27:55 +0100
- To: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
playbackRate 0 is equivalent to pausing playback and in my opinion it seems like a bad idea to have several ways to do that. Philip On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 10:20 -0800, Eric Carlson wrote: > > 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 > -- Philip Jägenstedt Opera Software
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