A markup and CSS example would make things clearer. How do you think it would look? Silvia.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
