- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:08:31 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Audio and video streams can expose vastly more data than just audio and > video tracks. So disabling video or audio does not necessarily mean the > elements are no longer useful. OK, this part requires further thought on my part, so I will not respond further here ... > Also, if the user agent supports <audio> > or <video> the contents of them will not be used, even if either is > disabled, solely due to the fact that the user agents supports the > elements. > > The specification is quite clear on this: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#video But this is a draft specification, subject to continual improvement, and if the WG were to decide that this behaviour is sub-optimal, then it would be perfectly possible for a future draft (and, perhaps, the final release) to specify that turning off audio and/or video /should/ cause the contents of the corresponding elements to be rendered. Philip TAYLOR
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