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Bug 24202 - The video element needs a "kind" attribute, so that there is a source for the kind attribute of VIdeoTrack objects.
Summary: The video element needs a "kind" attribute, so that there is a source for the...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
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: 2014-01-03 22:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-01-14 00:13 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2014-01-03 22:06:12 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-video-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-video-element
Referrer: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/

Comment:
The video element needs a "kind" attribute, so that there is a source for the
kind attribute of VIdeoTrack objects.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-01-09 19:06:26 UTC 
The VideoTrack.kind attribute's value comes from the video track data. How would it work if it was on <video>? Every track would end up with the same value, which would defeat the point, no?