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On 20/09/2010 12:50 p.m., Aryeh Gregor wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Shiv Kumar <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:skumar@exposureroom.com"><skumar@exposureroom.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The poster frame should remain visible until the video is played.
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I agree with Silvia, this should be required by the spec.</pre>
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This makes sense, we should spec this so that the poster <i>must</i>
be visible until its played, otherwise the poster attribute can't be
relied upon by authors.<br>
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<pre wrap="">The poster should show again after the video has ended.
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I'm ambivalent about this. I could go either way.</pre>
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Aesthetically, I feel we shouldn't show the poster once the video
has finished. Authors could script this behaviour if they wanted it.
The spec as it's written forbids showing the poster after a video
frame has been shown.<br>
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<pre wrap="">The visibility of the poster should be scriptable and/or controllable using
an attribute. Meaning that one should be able to turn on/off the poster
(without changing the poster attrbute’s value)
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I don't see why this is necessary.</pre>
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I also don't see why this is necessary. The poster attribute is only
useful if it's enabled, it's not useful if it isn't. Having an
attribute to denote whether the poster attribute is enabled seems
like duplication of state to me.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> You can just do
video.dataset.poster = video.poster;
video.removeAttribute("poster");
to remove it, and
video.poster = video.dataset.poster;
to restore, if you like. (In browsers that implement dataset, which
is apparently only WebKit so far. But you can easily store the
original value someplace else, although not quite as elegantly.)
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The specification for poster [1] implies that we should handle
dynamic changes to the poster attribute. I can imagine authors may
want to cycle through a chain of poster images for a given video,
and this can (theoretically) be easily implemented by changing the
poster attribute in a timer.<br>
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Chris P.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#attr-video-poster">http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#attr-video-poster</a><br>
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