- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:56:23 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:37:22 -0000, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Simon Pieters wrote: > > > > > > video and audio should have controls="" and autoplay="" > > > > The spec allows browsers to do that (in fact it explicitly calls out > > autoplay=""), but do we really want to require one or the other? I can see > > arguments for having only one or the other or both. > > Autoplaying is obviously subject to user preference, but I see no point > in not providing controls (assuming the output rendering is interactive, > of course). Theoretically speaking, those controls should of course be > stylable. That that may well be difficult to implement, however. The context here is how browsers display videos when you just navigate to a video file directly. Much as with navigating to images, where the spec says to use <img> but doesn't require or disallow extra features, such as the zoom feature most brosers provide, we here just say to use <video>, and then leave the UI up to the UA. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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