Hi, On youtube, the video starts playing automatically on a video page, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs This makes sense to me: implicit in the act of going to a youtube video page is the desire to watch that video. (Though it creates an annoying cacophony if you open a load of pages in tabs).
However, I think when you embed a video from youtube on another site, it does not start playing by default, presumably because (a) it's annoying if videos start playing on pages where you weren't expecting them and (b) people may embed multiple youtube videos in a page. For example: http://www.90percentofeverything.com/youtube-test/ If you want, you can append "&autoplay=1" to the end of the URL in the embed parameters, but that's for special cases. It strikes me that there's a big difference between having a video autoplay on a youtube video page, and having a video autoplay on a product detail page on an ecommerce site. Celeste, what's your client's business? Harry -- http://www.90percentofeverything.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
