- From: Joćo Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:38:50 +0100
Why not just assuming that playcount="0" means loops forever ? On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote: > 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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