- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:03:01 +0200
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:44:30 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, 24 May 2010, Philip J?genstedt wrote: >> > >> > I think we both agree but aren't understanding each other very well, >> or >> I'm >> > not thinking very clearly. People will write players assuming that >> currentTime >> > starts at 0 and ends at duration. If this is not the case they will >> break, so >> > an API which makes this not be the case in very few cases isn't very >> nice. >> >> Agreed. I've made the API clearly say that "duration" is the time at the >> end, even in the case where the start is not actually zero, to sidestep >> this issue somewhat. (The start will almost always be zero, so the >> slightly misleading name seems like a non-issue.) >> > > > It's a shame we are using the word "duration" instead of the more > appropriate word "endTime" for this. Would it be too difficult to change > it > at this time? It's too late, all scripted controls for <video> that display a timeline are already using the duration property. -- Philip J?genstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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