- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:15:43 +0100
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:17:16 +0100, Sander Tekelenburg <st at isoc.nl> wrote: >> Therefore (to ease authoring and thus help adoption) I would like to >> propose a new boolean attribute for <video>: autoplay="autoplay". It's >> presence would be equivalent to invocing play() on the video ASAP. > If it's a boolean, why not autoplay="true"? Or if you want to make it > easy > for less-techy authors, just a valueless "autoplay" atribute. (At the > very > least, this sort of thing should be consistent throughout the spec. HTML > 4 > and CSS 2 are inconsistent in this area, which makes it too easy for > authors > to make mistakes.) Automatic behavior in HTML has been traditionally expressed through scripting. It's not hard to write a one-line script which automatically starts playback, but solutions based on scripting are easier to circumvent on the user side (and it's good). -1 for |autoplay|. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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