- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:32:09 +0200
Eric Carlson wrote: > As we discussed on IRC today, I think a valid use case for looping is > background audio. It is possible to implement looping from script, but > as someone else in this thread commented, it will be very difficult to > do cleanly (eg. without artifacts). If this was done as some sort of background music for a game, then that's reasonable. There are many games that play annoyingly repetitive music. > Having said that, I don't think that "loopstart" and "loopend" will be > used frequently enough justify inclusion in the (first version of the) > spec. Agreed. I think it's worth nothing that, according to Mozilla's documentation, the <bgsound> element uses a loop attribute uses a loop attribute that takes a number or the keyword "infinite". The documentation for IE on MSDN is, however, quite vague about what values the attribute accepts. http://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML/Element/Bgsound http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa454504.aspx -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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