- From: Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>
- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:32:06 -0700
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Philip J?genstedt <philipj at opera.com> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:02:56 +0200, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov at chromium.org> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Philip J?genstedt <philipj at opera.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:25:20 +0200, Dimitri Glazkov >>> <dglazkov at chromium.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I wonder if it makes sense to introduce a set of pseudo-classes on the >>>> video/audio elements, each reflecting a state of the media on the >>>> controls (playing/paused/error/etc.)? Then, we could use just CSS to >>>> style media controls (whether native or custom), and not have to >>>> listen to DOM events just to tweak their appearance. >>> >>> With a sufficiently large set of pseudo-classes it might be possible to >>> do >>> *display* most of the interesting state, but how would you *change* the >>> state without using scripts? Play/pause, seek, volume, etc... >> >> This is not the goal of using pseudo-classes: they just provide you >> with a uniform way to react to changes. > > In other words, one would still have to rely heavily on scripts to actually > implement custom controls? Heavily is subjective. But yep :) > > Also, how would one style a progress bar using pseudo-classes? How about a > displaying elapsed/remaining time on the form MM:SS? I am not in any way trying to invent a magical way to style media controls entirely in CSS. Just trying to make the job of controls developers easier and use CSS where it's well... useful? :) > > -- > Philip J?genstedt > Core Developer > Opera Software >
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