- From: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:33:31 -0700
- To: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Apr 20, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Sean Hayes wrote: > That all makes a certain amount of sense; it would carry a little more weight if there were some language in the spec to the effect that autoplay is a request that the user agent can deny. For example, > > Rather than defining autoplay as: > " When present, the user agent (as described in the algorithm described herein) will automatically begin playback of the media resource as soon as it can do so without stopping " > Instead define it along the lines of: > " When present, the user agent (as described in the algorithm described herein) will; unless a user agent setting has been set indicating that immediate playback is allowed, move the media into a potentially playing but blocked state: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/video.html#blocked-media-element which is waiting for user interaction http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/video.html#paused-for-user-interaction " > That seems reasonable. eric
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