- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:21:56 -0500
- To: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi, All: Eric Carlson writes: > Hi Gregory - > > On Jan 6, 2011, at 7:13 AM, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: > > > my 2 cents (U.S.) on the "poster" controversy > > > > perhaps the biggest problem with "poster" is the attribute's name,, > > "poster" -- if it is not meant to be viewed/rendered, why, then, > > call it a "poster" -- seems that the semantic problem is strictly > > with HTML5 and its inappropriate use of the word "poster" which > > has caused us to loose valuable cycles debating over an error in > > the HTML5 spec itself -- if it isn't meant for human consumption > > and not meant to be rendered to a user, then it isn't really a > > "poster" and a more adequate attribute name needs to be used, > > instead of "poster" > > > The "poster" *is* rendered, just like the first frame of the video file is rendered when there is no poster attribute. > > The poster is meant to be a placeholder for the video, the image that is shown until the video begins playing. Again, just like the first frame of the video file is shown when there is no poster attribute. > I would argue further that it is correctly named. Our video poster, whether explicitly specified by poster= attribute, or implicitly by the behavior defined in the html5 spec, stands firmly in the tradition of movie posters and even vaudeville posters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_poster In my own personal experience, movie posters did indeed entice me to plunk down my $2 (American) in order to gain access to a seat inside the Orpheum theater. Or, they didn't grab me, so I moved down the street to examine the poster at the Lyric. The difference today is that we have technology to include people who can't see posters or movies, whereas we had no such technology back in the days of Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe. Janina > eric -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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