[whatwg] Html 5 video element's poster attribute

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Shiv Kumar <skumar at exposureroom.com> wrote:

>  >Could a call to video.load() reset this state?
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>  Currently is doesn’t affect the poster. But would that be intuitive? I’m
> getting the video element to load it’s source and so the poster will show?
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> Ideally poster should be an object (a property of the video element) that
> has a source property and a visible property. Or to not break current
> implementations. The video element could have a method called
> showPoster(bool) or a bool property called postervisible.
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> Shiv
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> http://exposureroom.com
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I regard the load() function as a kind of reset() function. But possibly we
need an actual reset() function to return to the original state where the
poster image is displayed?

Silvia.
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