[whatwg] When to stop <video> elements from playing

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Oct 20, 2007 1:36 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:

> Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > After some discussion on IRC, I think Jonas, Hixie and I agreed that
> > we're OK with the following approach:
> > -- sound is produced for display:none elements and elements not in the
> DOM
> > -- removing an element from the DOM automatically calls stop() on that
> > element
>
> Actually, shouldn't that be pause()? Might be good to retain the
> position in case you want to insert the element elsewhere and resume it.
>

Yes sorry.


> > -- tearing down the owner document always stops the element playing (so
> > navigating away from the page always stops sound)
>
> This shouldn't be "tearing down", but rather "leaving", right? A
> document can stay alive long after the user has navigated away from it
> since other frames can be holding it alive.


Yes, well, I was being vague about "tearing down". In Gecko we want bfcached
documents to pause their elements too.

Rob
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