[Bug 10419] <video> should allow muted as a content attribute

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10419

Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> 2010-10-15 20:14:52 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Having thought about this, I agree with Hixie that having .muted reflected as a
> content attribute is a bad idea since we want to allow the browser to remember
> the mute setting but we don't want to make that mutate the DOM during parsing.
> However, I think calling the content attribute something else is also a bad
> idea, since muted="" is what most authors would intiutively try to use to mute
> the video with markup. Thus, I think we should follow the precedent set with
> <input value>, .value and .defaultValue, and introduce <video muted> which is
> reflected with .defaultMuted.

Why not use .muted and .currentMutedState - seems more similar to .src and
.currentSrc which is already a pattern for <video> and <audio>

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Received on Friday, 15 October 2010 20:14:54 UTC