- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:29:09 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:18:31 +0100, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:51:20 +0100, Silvia Pfeiffer >> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I think more important than the HAVE_METADATA state is the event >>> "onloadedmetadata". As long as we don't remove the event with the >>> state, I - speaking as a Web author - would not find it a problem when >>> the state was removed. >> >> Certainly the events will stay, what I'm questioning is if readyState >> will >> ever be HAVE_METADATA, as seen by scripts. > > As a script author, I don't think I would rely on it. I would always > write "video.readyState >= video.HAVE_METADATA", which - as browsers > never seem to reach that state - could equally be written as > "video.readyState >= video.HAVE_CURRENT_DATA". I also think that this will not be a problem most of the time. Still, any inconsistency between implementations will eventually cause bugs, so I hope we can get interoperability on this after figuring out what behavior actually makes sense. -- Philip Jägenstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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