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Bug 12360 - <video> It seems more accurate to say that the media element "is not currently playing" instead of saying "is paused or not". The phrase "is paused" seems to imply that it's been manually paused by the user, but this would not apply...
Summary: <video> It seems more accurate to say that the media element "is not currentl...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-03-21 23:26 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-03-21 23:26:44 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-media-paused

Comment:
It seems more accurate to say that the media element "is not currently
playing" instead of saying "is paused or not". The phrase "is paused" seems to
imply that it's been manually paused by the user, but this would not apply
when a page is first viewed and the video has not been played yet.

Posted from: 69.157.44.167
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.151 Safari/534.16
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-06-14 23:19:10 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: 

media.paused definitely doesn't represent if the element is playing or not. There are a lot of ways in which .paused can be false but the element not be playing.

Do you have another suggestion? I don't want something less accurate than "is paused or not", but I'm happy to change it if we can find something better.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:04:48 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1