- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:50:28 +1000
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Chris Double <chris.double at double.co.nz>wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Shiv Kumar <skumar at exposureroom.com> > wrote: > > > > No, this won?t work. I don?t want the poster to be shown during a seek so > > the question of showing it until seek completes is moot. > > I think Chris meant that the poster should remain shown if the user > chose to seek instead of play when the video first loads. Showing the > poster during any other seek wouldn't make sense. > > > So really, what you?re saying is simply forget about using the poster > > attribute altogether. Which is exactly what a few others have done > > including us, so this whole dialog has been futile. In that case you > don?t > > need to tihghten up the spec either. > > Unfortunately, as has been pointed out by others, the 'using an image' > approach becomes problematic when you are using the built in browser > controls. I like the idea of being able to manually turn on and off > the poster display. > > Removing the poster attribute is an option to turn the poster off but > there is no way to turn it back on again. > You just need to remember the value of the poster element before you remove it - then you can set it back later. Silvia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100922/d596b531/attachment.htm>
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