On 2010-09-20 05:09, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Shiv Kumar <sku...@exposureroom.com
<mailto:sku...@exposureroom.com>> wrote:
I'm glad to see that people do see the need to change (or specify
in more detail) the behavior of the poster at least insofar as it
disappearing before the video is played. As far as I know, every
major browser (IE 9 beta, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera) do this.
As Monty discovered, Firefox does not make the poster disappear until
the video is played. Feel free to file bugs against any browsers that
behave differently; just because the spec allows something doesn't
mean it's a good idea!
Tightening up the spec to require the poster to remain until the video
is played does sound like a good idea.
We do need a spec change to allow the poster to be shown when the
video has ended, if that is the most commonly desired behavior.
Rob
--
"Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians,
for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the
Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." [Acts 17:11]
The proper behavior should be that...
if there is a "start poster" then it must be displayed while any
pre-loading takes place, if there is no pre-loading or auto-play then it
must remain displayed until the user press play/pause/stop.
if there is a "start poster" then it must be removed if the user press
play/pause/stop or pre-loading has progressed far enough for autoplay to
start.
I'd also like to add that...
If the user pauses the video during play then a "paused poster" must not
be shown as the user most likely intends to study the paused frame of
the video, if there is a "paused poster" then it must be toggleable
between "paused poster" and frame by the user as they please, a small
symbol or control may be shown during the paused frame to indicate there
is a "paused poster" available.
And I'd also like to add that...
If there is a "end poster" then it must be displayed when the user stop
the video, or if the last frame of the video is reached then the "end
poster" but be shown.
Finally I'd like to add that...
There may be one or more posters, the start/pause/end posters may be the
exact same poster or different posters.
The 3 different types of posters must be scriptable to allow rotation
between multiple different posters.
Does this sound like something that would satisfy both developers and
users, without annoying either?
Personally I do not see much point in a "paused poster" but I guess if
it's scriptable it could act as a info card or maybe repeat the chapter
title or something like that!
Does posters support hotzones at all? To allow clickable
items/links/symbols (urls?). Just curious!
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