- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:17:07 +0200
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:06:20 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: > On Oct 15, 2008, at 03:40, Ian Hickson wrote: >> To be honest I'm not really convinced we need the looping feature at >> all. I agree. I never really understood what the use cases were for these attributes. I got the impression they were added because of feedback from Apple, but the reason was never clear to me. >> It seems like we should drop this from the current version. What benefit >> does it bring? Is looping really that common? If we got rid of it we >> could find better ways of picking the start time. > > One benefit of getting authors to use a declarative attribute instead of > a script is that a declarative attribute is easier to greasemonkey away > if the user seriously doesn't like looping. If this really turns out to be a problem user agents could always add measures to prevent playing a video more than once. After all, they are in charge of the video stream now with <video>. Authors can merely "try to" interact with it. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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