- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:15:28 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Chris Pearce wrote: > > My reading of the spec is that if you have a media element with no src > attribute or source element children (e.g. <video></video>) and you > insert it into a document, then the media load() algorithm will be > implicitly invoked, and because the list of potential media resources is > empty, that algorithm will immediately fall through to the "failure > step" (step 12), causing an error progress event to be dispatched to the > media element. > > My question is: > > Is is really necessary to invoke the load algorithm when adding a media > element with no src/sources to a document? Doing so just causes an error > progress event dispatch, and we've not exactly failed to load anything, > indeed, we've not even tried to load anything in this case. The load algorithm now explicitly waits in this case. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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