I would stick with the name "play". It's already extra work to learn LZX and the LZX specific APIs. Choosing different method names for the functionality in HTML5 and within LZX will be really confusing.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Henry Minsky <[email protected]>wrote: > The W3C HTML5 media playback API specifies a "play" method, which takes no > args. There's also a "pause()" and "load()" method. > > I'd like to implement the HTML5 media class to have a play() method, but > we've already got one on LzView. > > I can override the "play()" method, although when we have a swf version > of the class, we will have to match the existing arguments type signature > in order to make the Flex compiler happy. It's not out of the question to > override it, since all of the LzView.play() method args have default > values, so calling it play() no args is OK. > > If I override play() on this class, I don't *think* it will cause anything > to break, assuming that nobody tries to give it a resource and then expects > to be > able to use the LzView playback API on that. > > I just feel a little cheesy about doing this, even though I really want to > have as compatible an API as possible. I could name it something else, like > "start()" or something... > > > > > -- > Henry Minsky > Software Architect > [email protected] > > >
