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

Philip Jägenstedt philipj at opera.com
Wed Sep 11 02:18:28 PDT 2013


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:51:44 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> That might be good so that the behavior is consistent between browsers.
>>> However, I think it should be conditional on whether the controls are
>>> visible rather than whether the controls attribute is present.
>>
>>
>> What does "visible" mean here, is it to handle cases where the UA
>> force-enables the controls without adding the controls attribute to
>> the DOM?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html#expose-a-user-interface-to-the-user

Right, connecting it to the "expose a user interface to the user"
concept seems best.

Philip



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