Re: [whatwg] Modify the Page Visibility spec to let UA's take into account whether iframes are visible on the screen from Roger Hågensen on 2015-03-31 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2015)

From: Roger Hågensen <rh_whatwg@skuldwyrm.no>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:09:20 +0200
To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <551AF0E0.9000003@skuldwyrm.no>

On 2015-03-31 20:55, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
> Roger Hågensen <rh_whatwg@skuldwyrm.no> writes:
>
>> I often open multiple tabs, and then I go through them one by one later.
>> If I end up opening 3-4 videos at the same time I have to stop the other
>> 3 so I do not get a cacophony of 4 videos at once.
> This is something that can be fixed by the UA: For Mozilla browsers, you
> can go to about:config and set media.autoplay.enabled to “false”. Also,
> the NoScript browser extension can make media click-to-play by default.
>

I hardly think a lot of users want to follow directions like that.
As a programmer/content designer it would make more sense to do so using 
either attributes or javascript instead of bothering the user.

-- 
Roger Hågensen, Freelancer, http://skuldwyrm.no/

Received on Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:09:47 UTC