- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:03:55 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > It might be a good idea to revive stop() if, in existing media players, > the poster="" frame is shown again when the user "stops" the video, but > not when the user pauses and seeks to the beginning. I would suggest > that the spec should not require authors to jump through hoops in order > to emulate existing practice (e.g. add and remove the poster="" > attribute back and forth to make their homegrown stop() DTRT). Exising Web media players seem to remove the poster frame entirely once the media has started downloading. > Additionally, the current spec says: > > The poster attribute gives the address of an image file that the user > agent can show while no video data is available. > > I would imagine that users expect the poster frame to be shown even when > there is video data available. Otherwise the poster frame would be > pretty useless when the first frame in the video is black. The statement above just described what is possible, the later text that states what the <video> element actually represents gives this in more detail. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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