[Bug 14186] New: Proposed additional information for <video> Error events

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14186

           Summary: Proposed additional information for <video> Error
                    events
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: offbeatmammal@gmail.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


while the Error event on the <video> (and <audio>) elements is useful (or will
be when https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68308 /
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=96871 are resolved) the
diagnostic information returned is rather limited...

While there is information about the network conditions there is no easy way to
determine if the request failed because the asset was not found, or the user
was not authorized to access it.

My suggestion would be to add support for an additional attribute on error to
supplement error.code with an error.httpresponse that would give developers the
ability to test and act on a 404 or 403 or 500 etc

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Received on Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:02:13 UTC