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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
Maybe we should rename 'loopcount' to 'playcount'...?
playcount fits better with the number of times to play the clip than
loopcount does.
Ok. Done.
Hmm. Is the spec really ambigious?
Here's an example: [...]
What you're saying is that the attribute name is non-intuitive, not that
the spec is ambiguous.
I agree. Changed as noted above.
Now, I am suggesting:
loopCount - playCount
currentLoop - playIndex || currentPlayIndex || currentPlayCountIndex
I have left this one for now. I don't like index, for reasons discussed
below.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Simon Pieters wrote:
I don't have an opinion about naming in general, but I will note that
.playIndex is consistent with select's .selectedIndex.
For me this counts as a point against -- the selectedIndex identifies an
item in a list, whereas here we are identifying a general period of time.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Dave Singer wrote:
I have wondered whether it would be clearer if we called it loopFrom and
loopTo, and had loopCount be the count of the *extra* plays, and
loopNumber (or loopIndex) the current *extra* play. So if loopCount is
0, loopStart and loopEnd are irrelevant, and loopNumber will never
exceed 0 either.
I don't think loopFrom and loopTo is necessarily better than loopStart and
loopEnd.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Randy Drielinger wrote:
The terminoly we currently have is the one that's being used in the
Video / Editting branch.
Although they don't sound too logical, we could keep these (thus making
it more consistent definition-wise) or perhaps pursue another name set
from an area and adapt those. I don't favor creating a new named set to
make things clear only for HTML5.0 sake.
Are you ok with the new names?
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Dave Singer wrote:
yes, and clarifying that there is a straight play from start to end, and
then loopCount extra plays from loopStart to loopEnd, counted by
loopNumber. The same names with repeat instead of loop would also work.
is that clearer, easier to explain and understand? so a loopCount of 0
means no loops, just the straight play. loopNumber 0 means we have not
yet looped.
I'm not sure that loopCount = 0 is clearer than playCount = 1. In fact I
think people get confused over loopCount too much, however it works.
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