[whatwg] Should <video controls> generate click events?

Philip Jägenstedt philipj at opera.com
Wed Aug 21 00:36:38 PDT 2013


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Peter Occil <poccil14 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> IMHO, the example that Philip provided in http://people.opera.com/~**
>> philipj/click.html <http://people.opera.com/~philipj/click.html> is not a
>> realistic example of something a JS dev would do.
>
>
> I'm afraid this example doesn't work well in Firefox and Google Chrome.  It
> affects not only the video itself but also the browser-provided controls,
> and in Firefox it seems to interfere with those controls.

Indeed, the demo was precisely to show how the native controls become
unusable when the scripts on the page haven't taken them into
consideration.

Philip



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