- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:18:28 +0300
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
On Sep 11, 2008, at 05:00, Jim Jewett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> > wrote: > >> I put the "Please upgrade" stuff in there to emphasize that the >> content of >> the <video> element is not accessibility fallback but legacy browser >> fallback. Per spec, the text about upgrading is not rendered in >> <video>-supporting browser regardless of user's disability. > > My browser is perfectly capable of running audio and (through > plugins) video. > > I choose to turn them off most of the time. I will make that same > choice when they are "video" rather than "embed" or "object". > > Are you saying that I should stop getting those annoying upgrade > pages, or that I should stop getting any warning at all of missed > content? I don't understand your motivation for wanting to turn video off, so it's hard to suggest a solution. The reasons why I want to turn some video-related stuff off by default isn't related to videoness but to pluginness (event loop spinning stuff on Mac; security holes in binary blobs). It seems to me that if a <video>-supporting browser allowed the user to turn it off the way some browsers allow users to turn images off (mainly for legacy network technology considerations), the browser still shouldn't show the fallback meant for legacy browsers but should instead show a placeholder that can be clicked to unblock that particular video (much like the Flash Block Firefox extension allows you to click to unblock instead of pretending that Flash doesn't exist). -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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