Re: Dropping MediaController in HTML5.1? from Edward O'Connor on 2015-03-04 (public-html@w3.org from March 2015)

From: Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:27:19 -0800
To: public-html@w3.org
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Hi all,

Philippe wrote:
>> Blink is unshipping the MediaController by default [1]. It is now back
>> behind their " Enable experimental Web Platform features".

Chris explained:
> [Blink is putting] MediaController behind an experimental runtime flag
> until the implementation correctly integrates with the media engine.

Philippe wrote:
>> I believe we should consider whether we want to keep for HTML 5.1.

Given Chris' explanation (that they are temporarily withdrawing the
feature until their implementation improves), I think it would be a
mistake to remove the feature from the spec.

Ted

Received on Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:27:48 UTC