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Re: [whatwg] Should <video controls> generate click events?

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:32:16 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCw2wVAFgb2KpqF7SZxPc1Fs8O41S82qeYWodbO4RQ7iw@mail.gmail.com>
To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
Cc: WHAT Working Group Mailing List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com> 
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO, the example that Philip provided in http://people.opera.com/~**
> philipj/click.html <http://people.opera.com/~philipj/click.html> is not a
> realistic example of something a JS dev would do.

Um, why not?  Clicking on the video to play/pause is a useful
behavior, which things like the Youtube player do.  Since <video>
elements don't generally do this, it seems reasonable that an author
could do pretty much exactly what Philip shows in his demo.

~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:33:02 UTC

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