On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:59:03 +0200, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<[email protected]> wrote:
Simon Pieters wrote:
Is there a problem with always falling back to the poster image and just
play the video (full-screen or on-top) when the user indicates he wants
to see the video?
If every menu button has a <video> tag associated with it to show a
little
3D animation, then (a) how do you indicate to the user that it is a video
without disrupting the page layout?,
You just show the poster image.
and (b) how do you allow the user to
request playback without interfering with the function of the button?
If there is a controls attribute or if scripting is disabled, show controls,
else use author-provided scripted button (if any) to play the video. If the
device has a way to show context menus, then you could start playback from the
context menu. You could also have separate view that lists all media on the
page, similar to Firefox's Media tab in View Page Info.
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
