much of the BBC News video and audio does autostart, no? for instance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7489776.stm
best-- --cs -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mr I Forrester Sent: Fri 7/4/2008 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Quick idea for BBC News video -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm not so sure, its actually a good idea I think. A simple querystring element which starts the video as soon as possible. I'll put it in our ideas section, including your reason why not :) Peter Bowyer wrote: > You pretty much talked yourself out of that one, then :-) > > Peter > > 2008/7/4 Matt Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, just browsing the news and I wanted to send a link to a friend, and was >> wondering if it would be good to have a switch we could append to the URL, >> to make the video play automatically. Unsure if this would in some ways be >> detrimental - i.e. I could then force someone to unwittingly start a video, >> and at work with the sound up that could cause problems for some people, >> also maybe it's a feature that noone would use... but yeh, just a thought. >> As it's said, the signal is the noise! >> >> Ta, Matt >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIbgb4QiJ2fWCDT3cRArnVAJ0Wgi5kbHA5BYTg98RO4pBx63EkwACdF/iK yWnszMfbrFtqlvTUJ3rZr+I= =WdIV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/

