Hmmm. Here is a test case of one. I always, guarenteed, leave a site as soon as a video auto-plays without my consent. And I never go back.
Why? 90% of the time, I work, surf, write with my headphones on, with the music playing. Autoplay overides what I am listening to, usually at a volume much more than my music, and in somecases have literally cause pain in my ears - that is why I will never go to MySpace - ever. Just sayin. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Randy Harbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > All. > I have a request from the client to auto-play a video on load for a given > page. The page contains the video prominently at the top and has > significant > additional information below. Our internal discussion is that the user > needs > to take an inventory of the content of the page and would miss the 1st part > of the video if it auto played. I also suspect that auto play on a page > that > has additional content is an unexpected action. Conversely I believe if the > video were the only content on the page it would be OK to auto-play. > Opinions, strategy and rationale either way requested. > > Thanks, > Randy > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.128 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
