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Bug 16135 - <track> "When an object is returned, the same object must be returned each time." - allow it to be either cached or GCed, just like with e.g. getElementsByTagName
Summary: <track> "When an object is returned, the same object must be returned each ti...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-02-27 13:54 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-02-27 13:54:47 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-texttrack-cues
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-texttrack-cues

Comment:
<track> "When an object is returned, the same object must be returned each
time." - allow it to be either cached or GCed, just like with e.g.
getElementsByTagName

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-04-25 18:59:25 UTC 
Why? The getElementsByTagName() thing is only because there's a potentially infinite number of them, so it's impractical to remember them all.
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2012-04-25 19:25:18 UTC 
Same reason, really.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-06-27 21:24:15 UTC 
There's only one possible object from each <track> element's "cues" attribute. Same with "activeCues". So comment 2 makes no sense IMHO.