HTMLMediaElement's load() should return a Promise
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Description
As proposed by @cpearce in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/505#issuecomment-171229898
The tricky part is when the promise should be resolved. The spec has a number of steps under "Once enough of the media data has been fetched to determine the duration of the media resource, its dimensions, and other metadata" where it would make sense. At the end it says "Once the readyState attribute reaches HAVE_CURRENT_DATA, after the loadeddata event has been fired, set the element's delaying-the-load-event flag to false. This stops delaying the load event." Also resolving the load() promise at this point would probably work.
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the HTMLMediaElement load() algorithm and the cited WHATWG issue comment. Determine when the promise should resolve, considering the metadata-fetching steps and the HAVE_CURRENT_DATA state after loadeddata; done means the specification defines this behavior clearly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100