- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:31:50 +0100
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:18:40 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Jeroen Wijering > <mail at jeroenwijering.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Playing audio in <video> succeeds consistently across browsers, as >> described in the spec: >> >> "Both audio and video elements can be used for both audio and video. >> The main difference between the two is simply that the audio element >> has no playback area for visual content (such as video or captions), >> whereas the video element does." >> >> However, poster display behavior varies between browsers. Some browsers >> (FF, IE, Opera) will keep the poster up after an audio file has >> started, other browsers (Webkits, WinPho) clear the poster, which >> results in a blank area: >> >> http://goo.gl/0g77d >> >> It would be good if this behavior could be rationalized and/or >> addressed in the spec. My preference would be to continue showing the >> poster image if the media file has no (active) video track - a poster >> image looks much better than a blank area. >> >> Ideally, this would also be the case for "fullscreen" playback on >> mobile devices. > > I agree that keeping up the poster frame is the more useful behavior, > and that this should be specified in the spec. It is already. "When no video data is available (... the media resource does not have a video channel), the video element represents the poster frame." http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html#attr-video-poster -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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