847376 - Implement HTMLMediaElement.getStartDate()

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P5)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's "  readonly attribute Date startDate;", no?

We should just add Date to WebIDL; we need it for HTMLInputElement anyway.

Comment 2

[Andrew Quartey [:drexler]]

This got changed to a method...see: http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8112&to=8113

Comment 3

[Andrew Quartey [:drexler]]

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Comment 4

[Andrew Quartey [:drexler]]

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Forgot to qref.

Comment 5

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

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I don't think fragment start time is what you want here. What you need here is the timestamp which is typically stored in the metadata. We don't expose that yet, and it would be a bunch of work to get to it for all the formats we support, so I suggest we leave it for now.

We'd need a mochitest for this too.

Additionally, do any other browsers implements this feature? If no other browser does, I'm inclined to direct your efforts elsewhere first. I tested Chrome and IE on Windows, and they don't support HTMLMediaElement.startDate().

Comment 6

[Andrew Quartey [:drexler]]

Thanks for the review. 

> I don't think fragment start time is what you want here. What you need here
> is the timestamp which is typically stored in the metadata. We don't expose
> that yet, and it would be a bunch of work to get to it for all the formats
> we support...

Perhaps it'll be best to ping you on IRC to know what to look for in exposing the timestamps from the metadata and how to go about it. This is just to get more familiar with the media formats. 
 
> Additionally, do any other browsers implements this feature? 
None upon checking.