- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:06:45 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Francis Boumphrey wrote: > > Why does the (Editor's Draft 4 November 2011) spec not specifically > allow the 'autoplay' element? It has been supported by most browsers for > at least 10 years, and is specified on the <video> and <audio> elements, I assume you mean the autoplay="" attribute on <embed>. > I'm not sure the following does the trick. > > "Any namespace-less attribute other than name, align, hspace, and vspace > may be specified on the embed element, so long as its name is > XML-compatible and contains no characters in the range U+0041 to U+005A > (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z). These attributes are > then passed as parameters to the plugin." > > Have I missed some earlier discussion on this? On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Simon Pieters wrote: > > This is what the attribute does. It's a parameter to the plugin. On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Michael A. Puls II wrote: > > "autoplay" is only supported depending on the plug-in you load with > <embed>. Even then, there's nothing special about it and it's just a > param you pass to a plug-in that supports it. Some other plug-in might > use "zipzambam" to start playback automatically. Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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