[whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> 
> There's actually a fairly major related problem here. We hide the 
> fallback content by treating it as display:none. Currently Gecko has a 
> huge bug where a display:none plugin does not load/run. This works out 
> well for the video fallback case. If we fix that bug, then unless we do 
> some special magic, plugin-based video fallback will run and play audio 
> while the <video> element plays --- very bad.

Fixed.

Note: <iframe>s as <video> descendants still load, and if those pages 
contain <embed>, <object>, or <applet>s, they will load. Also, nested 
<video>s or <audio>s will load, including when in the fallback content of 
<object>. All I stopped is <object>, <embed>, and <applet>, when 
descendants of <video>, <audio>, or active <object>s.

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