On Oct 18, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Geoffrey Garen wrote:
Suppose a script creates a <video> element, adds it to the
document, starts it playing, then removes the element from the
document and drops all references to it. When should the element
stop playing?
-- when the element leaves the document?
Probably. Since you can't see the video any more, it would be really
weird to hear audio from it, or waste computer resources on a mute
and invisible video. Moreover, there's a lot of precedent for DOM
elements not loading when they're not in the document. This is true
of iframe, script, img, etc.
However, you'd probably want <audio> elements to be able to play
outside the document.
Regards,
Maciej
