On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:44:30 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>
> I think we both agree but aren't understanding each other very well,
or
I'm
> not thinking very clearly. People will write players assuming that
currentTime
> starts at 0 and ends at duration. If this is not the case they will
break, so
> an API which makes this not be the case in very few cases isn't very
nice.
Agreed. I've made the API clearly say that "duration" is the time at the
end, even in the case where the start is not actually zero, to sidestep
this issue somewhat. (The start will almost always be zero, so the
slightly misleading name seems like a non-issue.)
It's a shame we are using the word "duration" instead of the more
appropriate word "endTime" for this. Would it be too difficult to change
it
at this time?
It's too late, all scripted controls for <video> that display a timeline
are already using the duration property.
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
