I agree.

dave

On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

Safari already uses a transparent background by default and to me that
doesn't seem like a bad idea -- it may be best to hide small 1px
letterboxes due to rounding errors in aspect ratio calculation etc.
Setting "background-color:transparent" to override the default black is
probably less known to most authors and transparent background is also
more in line with most other HTML elements.

I would suggest eventually specifying this behavior in the rendering
section, unless someone feels that default black letterboxes is very
important.

// Philip

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 21:02 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Philip Jgenstedt wrote:

The issue with the poster attribute is resolved, but one comment made me
remember something I've wondered about:

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 09:26 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:

It's not impossible; first black would render 300x150, then the poster

The spec says: Areas of the element's playback area that do not contain
the video represent nothing.

What does this mean? Black is customary for video, but leaving the
region transparent (thus falling back to css background color) is
another option. Which is better?

It's transparent, but I intended to have the following rule in the style
sheet:

  video { background: black; }

...so that it looks black unless the author restyles it. Does that make
sense?

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