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

[Bob Lund]

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From: Silvia Pfeiffer [silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 5:05 PM
To: Bob Lund
Cc: Tab Atkins Jr.; WHAT Working Group Mailing List; Edward O'Connor
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Should <video controls> generate click events?




On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Bob Lund <B.Lund at cablelabs.com<mailto:B.Lund at cablelabs.com>> wrote:


On 8/20/13 4:46 PM, "Silvia Pfeiffer" <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com<mailto:silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com>> wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.
><jackalmage at gmail.com<mailto:jackalmage at gmail.com>>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
>> <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com<mailto: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.

What about a Web page that uses JS to control pause/play/etc based on
external messages, say from a WebSocket? The sender in this case acts as a
remote control.

The patch applies only to the case where the user interacts with browser-provided controls on the video element. In your case, the JS dev would probably not use the @controls attribute on the video element, since the playback controls comes from the remote.

<Bob>There still might be controls provided by the UA. I can use remote and TV controls as I choose. Should we presume what an app developer might want to do? What problem is being solved by making this restriction?</Bob>

Silvia.