[whatwg] <video> element proposal

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:18:08 +0100, Spartanicus  
<spartanicus.3 at ntlworld.ie> wrote:
>> [...] As soon as enough data is received the user agent should start
>> decoding the video. This means that play() and other methods can
>> already be used before the resource is downloaded completely.
>
> I strongly dislike audio and/or video that automatically downloads and
> starts playing automatically, so much so that I've disabled media player
> plugins altogether.

In case you misunderstood what I wrote: It will not start playing  
automatically.


>> Issue: height / width
>
> Currently an issue with supplying height and width for video content
> embedded with the object element is that the supplied width and height
> includes the chrome and UI controls of the embedded player. That creates
> problems for authors who often don't know the size of those elements in
> advance, it may depend on the player and/or player skin they use.
> Scaling video can be very GPU intensive, so it would be helpful if there
> was a way to ensure that video can play in it's native size, whilst at
> the same time knowing in advance what room to reserve in the flow for
> the media and any player chrome.

The idea is that support for the formats would be native (much like with  
<img>) so you wouldn't have a chrome and a player and such...


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Anne van Kesteren
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