[whatwg] <video> and <audio> tags need to have volume attribute.

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jun 5 14:30:22 PDT 2012


On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, crocket wrote:
>
> I know that it's possible to manipulate the volume attribute with
> javascript.
> Many internet forums allow HTML tags but prohibit javascripts, however.
> 
> If I was able to set the initial volume with volume attribute of those 
> tags, I would be able to set the volume without javascript.

What's the use case for setting the volume to anything but 1.0 (normal 
volume, controlled by the user's master volume control) or 0.0 (muted)?

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