- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:11:45 +0200
- To: public-html-a11y@w3.org
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:08:09 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> > wrote: >> If it's a problem that media starts playing without user consent then >> it's >> not enough to disable autoplay, as there will certainly be sites that >> use >> scripts to start playing. > > Yes, we agreed on that, too. But we didn't see a way to catch the > script-created autoplays in a simple and reliable way. The browser inevitably has to know when a video should start playing. At that point, one could simply not play until an asynchronous confirmation has been given, similar to how pop-up blockers work. -- Philip Jägenstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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