[whatwg] Should <video controls> generate click events?

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > IMHO, the example that Philip provided in http://people.opera.com/~**
> > philipj/click.html <http://people.opera.com/~philipj/click.html> is not
> a
> > realistic example of something a JS dev would do.
>
> Um, why not?  Clicking on the video to play/pause is a useful
> behavior, which things like the Youtube player do.  Since <video>
> elements don't generally do this, it seems reasonable that an author
> could do pretty much exactly what Philip shows in his demo.
>

YouTube has their own controls for this, so Philip's example does not apply.

What I'm saying is that the idea that the JS developer controls pause/play
as well as exposes <video controls> is a far-fetched example.

Silvia.