Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-07 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Justin Dolske wrote: > On 11/7/09 3:21 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> When timeupdate was added, the stated goal was actually as a battery >> saving feature for for example mobile devices. The idea was that the >> implementation could scale back how often it fired th

Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-07 Thread Justin Dolske
On 11/7/09 3:21 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: When timeupdate was added, the stated goal was actually as a battery saving feature for for example mobile devices. The idea was that the implementation could scale back how often it fired the event in order to save battery. Now that we have implementati

Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-07 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:15 +0100, Andrew Scherkus > wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Brian Campbell < >> brian.p.campb...@dartmouth.edu> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 5, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Andrew Scherkus wrote: >>> >>>  On Fri, Oct 30

Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-07 Thread Brian Campbell
On Nov 6, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Simon Pieters wrote: On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:11:18 +0100, Brian Campbell > wrote: Brian, since Firefox is doing what you proposed -- can you think of any other issues with its current implementation? What about for audio files? The way Firefox works is fine for

Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-06 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > We've considered firing it for each frame, but there is one problem. If > people expect that it fires once per frame they will probably write scripts > which do frame-based animations by moving things n pixels per frame or > similar. Some

Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:15 +0100, Andrew Scherkus wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Brian Campbell < brian.p.campb...@dartmouth.edu> wrote: On Nov 5, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Andrew Scherkus wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Brian Campbell < brian.p.campb...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-05 Thread Ralph Giles
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Brian Campbell wrote: > As implemented by Safari and Chrome (which is the minimum rate allowed by > the spec), it's not really useful for that purpose, as 4 updates per second > makes any sort of synchronization feel jerky and laggy. It really depends what you're

Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Scherkus
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Brian Campbell < brian.p.campb...@dartmouth.edu> wrote: > On Nov 5, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Andrew Scherkus wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Brian Campbell < >> brian.p.campb...@dartmouth.edu> wrote: >> As a multimedia developer, I am wondering about the purp

[whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-10-30 Thread Brian Campbell
As a multimedia developer, I am wondering about the purpose of the timeupdate event on media elements. On first glance, it would appear that this event would be useful for synchronizing animations, bullets, captions, UI, and the like. The spec specifies a rate of 4 to 66 Hz for these events