On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:14:34 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiff...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Chris Double
<chris.dou...@double.co.nz>wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
I might be misunderstanding what was requested but I don't think this
would work. Setting it back won't make the poster appear. The original
request was to have a way to make the poster appear or disappear at
will. I don't think there is a way at all of re-displaying the poster
without creating a new video element is there?
Ah I see that's what you meant. Yes, there isn't right now.
My suggestion was to adapt the functionality of "load()" to provide for
this
need at the end of the video playback. For displaying the poster at any
other time, you would still need to run you own javascript code, but I
see
that as a minor use case, so that should be ok.
Calling load() would cause the video decoding pipeline to be destroyed and
recreated, jumping to the beginning of the video. load() is basically only
for manually triggering resource selection after modifying <source>
elements, I think we should use it as little as possible. Resetting the
poster state in load() might be a good idea, but it doesn't really solve
the problem at hand.
I don't have a strong opinion on whether or not the problem is worth
solving, but if we do solve it a read-write posterVisible IDL attribute
would be OK by me.
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
