- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:26:55 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > > > <http://webkit.org/specs/HTML_Timed_Media_Elements.html> > > I'm worried about "The controller attribute is a boolean attribute. If > the attribute is present, the user agent must display a user interface > which allows the user to control the media element." > > If this is to be taken as "if an author provides no controller > attribute, the UA is to not provide a UI", I'd have to vote against that > (for reasons mentioned earlier ;)). The alternative -- having an attribute to hide the controls -- is what I'd prefer, but there isn't really a clean way to do that without double negatives like: <video nocontrols> ...with the corresponding: video.nocontrols = false; ...to enable controls, which is very confusing. > What about instead allowing authors to set controller to display:none? > That would give authors the freedom to suggest present movies > controllerless, but leave the end user the option to override that, as I > think it should be. It's not really a style-level thing -- if the content wants to control the video, it makes no sense to have the controls present as well. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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