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Focal Plane: controls that rack into focus as you reach for them
A player skin with a depth of field and no bar: one row of glyphs under a full-width seek line, each following a single number, its distance from your hand. At rest a glyph is small, dim and slightly soft; as the pointer comes within reach it sharpens, brightens and grows, and the nearest one is ringed in pale cyan with its name under it. Keyboard focus is the same focal plane. Drag along the seek and move below it to slow the scrub continuously, half as fast 60 pixels down and a quarter at 120, with a ruler of fine ticks showing the scale. The time and the seek never blur, and every seek still goes through Video.js 10's own store.
Video hosted on Mux, public playback ID: 8yxCaRsijLJsebpsqnXtVq5FlLVtt5W8RIpaKgzUlJQ
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