- From: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:07:19 -0700
On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > I like the simple boolean loop attribute. > > I am not sure we need loopStart and loopEnd, since we have start and > end to reduce the looping to a segment. I would like to avoid going > down the SMIL path and creating markup that defines interactive > presentation - rather it should just be a video file (or segment) that > we do stuff to - not multiple segments that we need to synchronise and > sequence etc. > I don't think we need "loopstart" and "loopend" either, looping over a segment of a media file seems a very uncommon use case. However I also think that playing just a segment of a media file will be a common use-case, so I don't think we need "start" and "end" either. > As for playCount - I am unsure if aside from a boolean loop attribute > we really need to enable the page author to specify how often a > video/audio should be viewed/heard. Once, possibly with autoplay, and > on loop should be enough for an author. I cannot see a use case for a > fixed number of views, but am happy to be told otherwise. > On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Antti Koivisto wrote: > > Would it be sufficient to have boolean attribute for enabling and > disabling looping? Looping more than once but not forever seems like > a pretty rare use case. > I agree that looping a fixed number of times, and looping over a segment of a media file are likely to be very uncommon, so I think a simple boolean is enough. eric
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