We've been looking in detail at the relationship of play/pause to
playback rate, and have a suggestion to simplify the design and make
it easier both to implement and understand (we hope).
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About playbackRate and defaultPlaybackRate in the current
specification of media
This e-mail contains replies to a number of e-mails received on the topic
of the proposed ping= attribute since January 2006. Since e-mail on this
topic was sent to both the WHATWG and HTMLWG mailing lists, I have cc'ed
both on this e-mail. Please pick just one when replying. Thanks!
On Thu, 19
Ian Hickson wrote:
I agree that ping= should be made visible to users. Indeed, the spec
explicitly makes that a SHOULD, going far outside its usual boundary of
not specifying user interface requirements.
For what it's worth, this thread sparked some discussion at
(Sent to WHATWG only since that seems to be where you have sent most
e-mails.)
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
The current state of things seems to be that creating a UI for this that
would actually mean something to users without at the same time being
completely in your face
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Kevin Calhoun wrote:
A consideration in raising this issue now is that in our prototyping we
rediscovered the need for the media engine to be informed in advance,
whenever possible, of the rate at which it will be required to play, in
order to prepare itself
