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Bug 15231 - When the source of a video element points to anaudio file, its intrinsic size should be the same as if there was no resource, and it should not be set to 0. This is not necessarily an author bug. It can happen if the platform has audio codecs but no video
Summary: When the source of a video element points to anaudio file, its intrinsic size...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-12-16 14:59 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:39 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-12-16 14:59:20 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-video-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-video-element

Comment:
When the source of a video element points to anaudio file, its intrinsic size
should be the same as if there was no resource, and it should not be set to 0.
This is not necessarily an author bug. It can happen if the platform has audio
codecs but no video codecs for a certain media format.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-01-28 22:08:14 UTC
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: When there's no video, the size is 300x150, to leave room for the controls.
Comment 2 yael 2012-01-30 13:08:38 UTC
I filed this bug to get more clarification on the scenario I described.
Your answer below is good enough for me.
thanks,