On Oct 14, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
There is no way to say "loop forever" right now primarily because
doing so
would mean complicating the syntax of the playcount attribute to be
not
just a number. You can work around it with script (just add
onended="currentTime=0" to the <video> element).
To be honest I'm not really convinced we need the looping feature at
all.
It seems like we should drop this from the current version. What
benefit
does it bring? Is looping really that common? If we got rid of it we
could
find better ways of picking the start time.
As we discussed on IRC today, I think a valid use case for looping
is background audio. It is possible to implement looping from script,
but as someone else in this thread commented, it will be very
difficult to do cleanly (eg. without artifacts).
Having said that, I don't think that "loopstart" and "loopend" will
be used frequently enough justify inclusion in the (first version of
the) spec.
eric
