Re: [css-content]: video

> On Jun 13, 2016, at 5:26 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com <mailto:dino@apple.com>> wrote:
> I think both <img src="cutekittens.mp4"> and url(cutekittens-v-bulldozer.mp4) should be supported. We've done some internal prototypes and it's very nice.
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> I'm not sure about media controls on the <img> case. I think we should start with something that is the same behaviour as a GIF is today.
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> If it's possible to harness such powerful control over the browser, people will do it in the worst way possible. They might even use JS libraries and then call it a best practice for ads, etc that the user can't see and cannot stop. 
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> The `content` property doesn't seem like a good place to declare media for CSS. Thinking if you want :active to trigger audio, etc and have that be presentation-only. 

I suggest it that it should be equivalent to GIF. No audio. No interaction. No worse, but an improvement in quality, asset download size and system resources (if implemented correctly).

Dean