Ah I see that we will fire an error event when we return to the
resource selection algorithm in this case, since we didn't abort the
resource selection algorithm. Never mind!
Chris P.
On 16/09/2010 3:48 p.m., Chris Pearce wrote:
In the media element resource fetch algorithm [1], there's this step:
<quote>
If the media data
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#media-data>
cannot be fetched at all, due to network errors, causing the user
agent to give up trying to fetch the resource [or]
If the media resource
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#media-resource>
is found to have Content-Type metadata
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html#content-type>
that, when parsed as a MIME type
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#mime-type>
(including any codecs described by the |codecs| parameter), represents
a type that the user agent knows it cannot render
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#a-type-that-the-user-agent-knows-it-cannot-render>
(even if the actual media data
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#media-data>
is in a supported format) [or]
If the media data
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#media-data>
can be fetched but is found by inspection to be in an unsupported
format, or can otherwise not be rendered at all
1.
The user agent should cancel the fetching process.
2.
Abort this subalgorithm, returning to the resource selection
algorithm
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#concept-media-load-algorithm>.
</quote>
Why don't we dispatch an error event to the candidate source child we
were loading from, or the media element if it was loading from a
source attribute, in this case? We dispatch error events in the
resource selection algorithm if the source child has an unsupported
type, how is this significantly different?
Regards,
Chris Pearce.
[1]
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#concept-media-load-resource
