On Nov 30, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Simon Pieters wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:18:40 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. > > It is already. > > "When no video data is available (... the media resource does not have a > video channel), the video element represents the poster frame." > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html#attr-video-poster
That covers it indeed, thanks. I'll file a bug with webkit then ;) - Jeroen
