[whatwg] Html 5 video element's poster attribute

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Shiv Kumar <skumar at exposureroom.com>wrote:

> I'm glad to see that people do see the need to change (or specify in more
> detail) the behavior of the poster at least insofar as it disappearing
> before the video is played. As far as I know, every major browser (IE 9
> beta, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera) do this.


As Monty discovered, Firefox does not make the poster disappear until the
video is played. Feel free to file bugs against any browsers that behave
differently; just because the spec allows something doesn't mean it's a good
idea!

Tightening up the spec to require the poster to remain until the video is
played does sound like a good idea.

We do need a spec change to allow the poster to be shown when the video has
ended, if that is the most commonly desired behavior.

Rob
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