On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:17:16 +0100, Sander Tekelenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Therefore (to ease authoring and thus help adoption) I would like to
propose a new boolean attribute for <video>: autoplay="autoplay". It's
presence would be equivalent to invocing play() on the video ASAP.
If it's a boolean, why not autoplay="true"? Or if you want to make it
easy
for less-techy authors, just a valueless "autoplay" atribute. (At the
very
least, this sort of thing should be consistent throughout the spec. HTML
4
and CSS 2 are inconsistent in this area, which makes it too easy for
authors
to make mistakes.)
Automatic behavior in HTML has been traditionally expressed through
scripting. It's not hard to write a one-line script which automatically
starts playback, but solutions based on scripting are easier to circumvent
on the user side (and it's good).
-1 for |autoplay|.
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