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Bug 11205 - The sentence describing when to fetch the poster resource is especially convoluted.
Summary: The sentence describing when to fetch the poster resource is especially convo...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-11-03 07:15 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-11-03 07:15:08 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-video-poster

Comment:
The sentence describing when to fetch the poster resource is especially
convoluted.

Posted from: 98.248.33.53 by ian@hixie.ch
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-01-07 22:43:37 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 3 contributor 2011-01-07 22:44:00 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5749.
Check-in comment: Rewrite how poster='' works so that it is (a) clearer and (b) actually requires that the poster frame goes away when you remove the attribute.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5748&to=5749
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:01:11 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1