- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:28:38 -0400
Chris Adams wrote: > there can always be browser defaults that take over, but by allowing > authors the ability to override the browsers controls > will allow for the flexibility of > a) allowing for disabled controls (perhaps disabling fast-forward for > training videos) Seems to me the user shoudl be in control here, not the author. If they want to fast forward, the browser lets them. I have no interest in enabling or even suggesting the use of the silly DVD type controls where you can't fast forward through the ads or the FBI notice. > b) scripted controls (automatically pausing at various points ) Maybe, but is it really the control we want to script or the video itself? > c) it allows for cross-browser standardization. This is *not* a good thing. Browsers will and should be wildly different, What works for IE will not work for a cell phone or a screen reader. The point is to tell the client that there is a video, here';s where to get it, and let the browser choose how best to display that and present the controls that make sense in its environment. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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