On Oct 15, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eric Carlson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As we discussed on IRC today, I think a valid use case for looping is
background audio. It is possible to implement looping from script,
but as
someone else in this thread commented, it will be very difficult to
do
cleanly (eg. without artifacts).
I think that's an excuse for poor coding. That should not influence
our decision making.
If it was impossible to implement, I would use it as an argument - but
not if it's just hard.
The implementation of a good codec is hard in the first instance. Lots
of things are hard, but do-able with some skill.
We should react more to user needs than programmer capabilities here.
I think you misunderstood what I was (trying to) say. I mean that
it is very difficult to implement looping cleanly in *JavaScript*
because of callback latency, single threaded interpreters, etc.
I think looping is useful and common enough that we should have an
attribute for it, and thus make the implementation the responsibility
of the UA/media engine.
eric
