On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Chris Double <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Shiv Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > No, this won’t work. I don’t want the poster to be shown during a seek so > > the question of showing it until seek completes is moot. > > I think Chris meant that the poster should remain shown if the user > chose to seek instead of play when the video first loads. Showing the > poster during any other seek wouldn't make sense. > > > So really, what you’re saying is simply forget about using the poster > > attribute altogether. Which is exactly what a few others have done > > including us, so this whole dialog has been futile. In that case you > don’t > > need to tihghten up the spec either. > > Unfortunately, as has been pointed out by others, the 'using an image' > approach becomes problematic when you are using the built in browser > controls. I like the idea of being able to manually turn on and off > the poster display. > > Removing the poster attribute is an option to turn the poster off but > there is no way to turn it back on again. > You just need to remember the value of the poster element before you remove it - then you can set it back later. Silvia.
