- From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 11:22:18 +0100
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- CC: Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>, Leeroy <soupress@gmail.com>, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
Dear Silvia, > IMO in this instance, we should not be surprising the web developer > with unexpected behaviour. A loop attribute on a video element with a > media fragment can fairly be expected to loop over the fragment (in a > best effort) and not kill the looping behaviour. The whole Web is > about best effort, so I don't see how the potential for gaps in the > loop should be allowed to create such an unexpected behaviour. With > that argument, we should be disallowing videos on the Web, since it > can never be guaranteed that video plays back without pausing for > buffering. > > Raphael, Leeroy: if you are keen, do you want to register a bug in > WHATWG to get this discussion going for the HTML spec? > (I am a bit swamped, but will be happy to contribute when I can). Yes, I think it is worth to continue this discussion with the wider WHATWG community and I would like to thank you all for the arguments you put in this thread. I'm in a plane now but I will register a new bug as soon as I'm touching ground. Cheers. Raphaël -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Multimedia Communications Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/
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