Eric Carlson 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).
If this was done as some sort of background music for a game, then
that's reasonable. There are many games that play annoyingly repetitive
music.
Having said that, I don't think that "loopstart" and "loopend" will be
used frequently enough justify inclusion in the (first version of the)
spec.
Agreed.
I think it's worth nothing that, according to Mozilla's documentation,
the <bgsound> element uses a loop attribute uses a loop attribute that
takes a number or the keyword "infinite". The documentation for IE on
MSDN is, however, quite vague about what values the attribute accepts.
http://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML/Element/Bgsound
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa454504.aspx
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