Re: Progress event spec

* Jean-Claude Dufourd wrote:
>JCD: take a scene with a media element with an empty xlink:href. The 
>load event on the media element arrives at the end of the parsing of the 
>element, because of the empty (or absent) xlink:href.

When the load event occurs in this case is subject to the specification
of this media element. If this media element has embedding semantics, an
empty xlink:href attribute would result in infinite recursion; generally
such a media element cannot load successfully and I would consequently
not expect the load event to occur but the error event to occur instead.

>I suppose that the recording is stopped by a mean resident on the camera 
>(button). From the point of view of the media element, there is no way 
>of  knowing about the end of the media.
>I would like to have:
>- an event at the beginning of the recording, to start a "recording" 
>animation
>- I do not care about events during the recording, because the duration 
>is unknown, so I have no way of slaving my animation to any "progress" 
>indication representing completeness
>- I want an event at the end of the recording, in order to terminate the 
>"recording" animation.

It seems that if the implementation knows about the end of the recording
it also knows about the end of the media, so I am not really sure what
you are trying to say.

>> I also don't want to encourage authors to rely on this event, since doing so 
>> breaks backward compatibility for no good reason that I can understand.
>>   
>JCD: I do not get the "breaking backward compatibility". Would you 
>please clarify ?

He means compatibility with downlevel clients that do not support the
new event. Obviously, if content relies on something that a client
does not support, the content does not work correctly in that client.
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Received on Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:11:58 UTC