Firefox works differently here, without some of those specific problems you mention, I think. I think it would be up to the Media WG to standardize behavior any further. See also https://github.com/w3c/autoplay/ On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 6:43 AM Tim Panton <tim@pi.pe> wrote: > > > On 14 Dec 2021, at 07:45, Stefan Håkansson LK < > stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com> wrote: > > Just a minor follow up on Jan-Ivar’s input below. > > The html media element already has the autoplay attribute, it should be > made clear why it would not satisfy N36. > > > > It is currently unusable in chrome. It works without a user action if you > are the developer (i.e. you visited the site recently) but not if you are a > new > Visitor, this makes it impossible to do regression testing. (It is also > anti-competitive IMHO). > > The user can have granted mic permissions etc, but still not get autoplay. > > I spend more time fixing this than almost anything else. > I have an otherwise needless modal dialog in many of my apps, to obtain a > user click, which then has to go off an do a _lot_ of unrelated things. > > Explaining this to a rational web-dev is exhausting. > > T. > >
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