[whatwg] HTML5 Video - Issue and Request for improvment

[Simon Pieters]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:58:41 +0100, Lubomir Toshev <lubo_toshev at dir.bg>  
wrote:

> To elaborate a bit, I'm a control developer and I have my own custom
> controls. But we want to allow for the customer to use the default  
> browser
> controls if they want to. This can be done by switching an option in my
> jQuery widget - browserControls - true/false. Or through browser context
> menu shown by default on right click. So I'm trying to be flexible enough
> for the customer.
>
> I was thinking about this
> 1) that adding a transparent overlay over the browser controls
> Or
> 2) to detect the click position and if it is some pixels away from the
> bottom of the video tag
>
> will fix this, but every browser has different height for its embedded
> controls and I should hardcode this height in my code, which is just not
> manageable.
>
> I can always add a limitation when using browser controls, toggle  
> play/pause
> on video area click will be turned off, but I want to achieve similar
> behavior in all the browsers no matter whether they use embedded  
> controls or
> not.
>
> So I think this tiny click.target thing will be very useful.

See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0395.html

I suggested that the browser would not generate an event at all when using  
the native controls. Seemingly there was no reply to Hixie's request for  
opinion from other implementors.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software