On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Jeroen Wijering <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Playing audio in <video> succeeds consistently across browsers, as described > in the spec: > > "Both audio and video elements can be used for both audio and video. The > main difference between the two is simply that the audio element has no > playback area for visual content (such as video or captions), whereas the > video element does." > > However, poster display behavior varies between browsers. Some browsers (FF, > IE, Opera) will keep the poster up after an audio file has started, other > browsers (Webkits, WinPho) clear the poster, which results in a blank area: > > http://goo.gl/0g77d > > It would be good if this behavior could be rationalized and/or addressed in > the spec. My preference would be to continue showing the poster image if the > media file has no (active) video track - a poster image looks much better > than a blank area. > > Ideally, this would also be the case for "fullscreen" playback on mobile > devices.
I agree that keeping up the poster frame is the more useful behavior, and that this should be specified in the spec. ~TJ
