Re: [whatwg] Google Feedback on the HTML5 media a11y specifications

2011-01-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
2011/1/14 Silvia Pfeiffer > Required attributes in WebVTT files should be the main language in use > and the kind of data found in the WebVTT file - information that is It should be possible to specify language per-cue, or better, per block of text mid-cue. Subtitles making use of multiple langu

Re: [whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video

2011-01-23 Thread David Singer
On Jan 23, 2011, at 21:40 , Glenn Maynard wrote: > > The most important unresolved use case is: how to allow limiting the amount > of prebuffered data, while also having a mechanism to disable that limit > when there isn't enough bandwidth. The problem isn't so much the lack of bandwidth, as

Re: [whatwg] Value of media.currentTime immediately after setting

2011-01-23 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Matthew Gregan wrote: > This doesn't seem to be required by the current wording of the spec (in > fact, it seems to be incorrect behaviour), but I think this behaviour is > more intuitive, as it seems unusual that currentTime returns to the old > value immediately

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 video: frame accuracy / SMPTE

2011-01-23 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > Ah, thanks for clarifying. It might be a bit odd for the spec to forbid > being too clever, but I think that in practice always seeking to the same > point is much easier, so that's what would be implemented. It would indeed > be bad if

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 video: frame accuracy / SMPTE

2011-01-23 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > Since, as you say, the behavior is currently inconsistent, there is still > time to agree on something that makes sense and have everyone implement > that. I think the best default is keyframe seeking and haven't seen any > strong argume

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 video: frame accuracy / SMPTE

2011-01-23 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Basically, as the decoding speed approaches realtime the seeking time > approaches what you'd get by seeking to the prior keyframe and playing > up to the current point, except with the exact seeking you sit around > twiddling your thumbs

Re: [whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video

2011-01-23 Thread Chris Pearce
On 24/01/2011 12:32 a.m., Philip Jägenstedt wrote: Hmm. To get this effect without preload=buffer, you could set preload=auto, watch the buffered attribute to see when some data is actually downloaded, then set it to preload=metadata to stop autoloading. That's a minor hack, and would need

Re: [whatwg] Adding descent to TextMetrics

2011-01-23 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 8/10/2010 5:22 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: Adding more features to TextMetrics is on the cards for a future version of the canvas API, but at the moment I'm waiting until more of the spec is reliably implemented before adding more features, so

Re: [whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video

2011-01-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > But presumably you want some kind of guarantee that the video will be able > to keep playing without waiting for the network, right? So if you don't use > preload=auto, you'll at least need preload=playthrough or similar. Maybe > that's p

Re: [whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video

2011-01-23 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:13:15 +0100, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: I do think that in the basic case of a user pressing play on a video player, it's good to be able to make that respond instantly rather than waiting for a round-trip to begin pla

Re: [whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video

2011-01-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: >> I do think that in the basic case of a user pressing play on a video >> player, it's good to be able to make that respond instantly rather >> than waiting for a round-trip to begin playing. > > Have you found this to be an actual problem

Re: [whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video

2011-01-23 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:06:30 +0100, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: I agree that there must exist a buffering strategy between strategy=metadata and strategy=auto, but it's not clear that this must be exposed as a preload state. The only diff

Re: [whatwg] FYI: HTML usage data from Disqus websites

2011-01-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:09:32 +0100, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: Doesn't Google have a much grater dataset? I recall a 20%-research covering usage of MSHTML and/or MSIE specific extensions (in specific, extensions for disabling Microsoft (anti-)features), but I can't find it. They do, but we do