On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Chris Double <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Michael A. Puls II > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Seeking to the beginning when the ended event fires sounds like a good >> workaround for patching in a loop feature. But, you'd have to do it on >> a per-instance basis. > > Even with the looping attributes you'd need to do it on a per instance > basis. It's the page author, not the user (unless they use something > like GreaseMonkey) that makes the decision whether things can loop. > Keeping or removing the loop attributes don't change this. > > I think all functionality provided by the looping attributes can be > done via scripting. But is there a need to provide the ability to do > these things with JavaScript disabled?
The main advantage I can see of having loop attributes is that the implementation knows that the start of the loop is about to be shown and can make sure to buffer and/or decode as appropriately. That said. I am unconvinced that looping common enough that it's a use case that needs to be optimized for. / Jonas
