Re: Progress event spec

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Jean-Claude Dufourd wrote:
>   
>> JCD: take a scene with a media element with an empty xlink:href. The 
>> load event on the media element arrives at the end of the parsing of the 
>> element, because of the empty (or absent) xlink:href.
>>     
>
> When the load event occurs in this case is subject to the specification
> of this media element. If this media element has embedding semantics, an
> empty xlink:href attribute would result in infinite recursion; generally
> such a media element cannot load successfully and I would consequently
> not expect the load event to occur but the error event to occur instead.
>   
JCD: Sorry, you lost me there. An SVG/SMIL media element with an empty 
xlink:href just does not render: it is definitely not in error.
The load event will happen.

>> I suppose that the recording is stopped by a mean resident on the camera 
>> (button). From the point of view of the media element, there is no way 
>> of  knowing about the end of the media.
>> I would like to have:
>> - an event at the beginning of the recording, to start a "recording" 
>> animation
>> - I do not care about events during the recording, because the duration 
>> is unknown, so I have no way of slaving my animation to any "progress" 
>> indication representing completeness
>> - I want an event at the end of the recording, in order to terminate the 
>> "recording" animation.
>>     
>
> It seems that if the implementation knows about the end of the recording
> it also knows about the end of the media, so I am not really sure what
> you are trying to say.
>   
JCD: again, you lost me: my POV is that of the content. Can I design the 
content so that it can react to the end of the recording, e.g. by 
stopping an animation ?
The machine knows, the UA software may know, but is there a way to let 
the content know ? Tha is my problem.
Best regards
JC
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