On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:32:06 +0200, Dimitri Glazkov <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:02:56 +0200, Dimitri Glazkov >>> <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:25:20 +0200, Dimitri Glazkov >>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I wonder if it makes sense to introduce a set of pseudo-classes on the >>>>>> video/audio elements, each reflecting a state of the media on the >>>>>> controls (playing/paused/error/etc.)? Then, we could use just CSS to >>>>>> style media controls (whether native or custom), and not have to >>>>>> listen to DOM events just to tweak their appearance. >>>>> >>>>> With a sufficiently large set of pseudo-classes it might be possible to >>>>> do >>>>> *display* most of the interesting state, but how would you *change* the >>>>> state without using scripts? Play/pause, seek, volume, etc... >>>> >>>> This is not the goal of using pseudo-classes: they just provide you >>>> with a uniform way to react to changes. >>> >>> In other words, one would still have to rely heavily on scripts to >>> actually >>> implement custom controls? >> >> Heavily is subjective. But yep :) >> >>> >>> Also, how would one style a progress bar using pseudo-classes? How about >>> a >>> displaying elapsed/remaining time on the form MM:SS? >> >> I am not in any way trying to invent a magical way to style media >> controls entirely in CSS. Just trying to make the job of controls >> developers easier and use CSS where it's well... useful? :) > > Very well, what specific set pseudo-classes do you think would be useful?
I can infer what would be useful from WebKit's media controls as a first stab? :DG< > > -- > Philip Jägenstedt > Core Developer > Opera Software >
