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Bug 28829 - Explicitly mention the possible use of remote controls as input devices in the "User interface" section of media elements
Summary: Explicitly mention the possible use of remote controls as input devices in th...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
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Whiteboard: [good first bug]
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Blocks: 24860
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Reported: 2015-06-20 00:15 UTC by Silvia Pfeiffer
Modified: 2016-03-22 13:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Silvia Pfeiffer 2015-06-20 00:15:48 UTC 
(requested by HbbTV, see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24860#c13 )

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#user-interface has a paragraph explaining how a UA can provide controls even when @controls is absent.

"Even when the attribute is absent, however, user agents may provide controls to affect playback of the media resource (e.g. play, pause, seeking, and volume controls), but such features should not interfere with the page's normal rendering. For example, such features could be exposed in the media element's context menu."

HbbTV would like to see TV remote controls explicitly mentioned as another possible means to expose UA controls, e.g.
"For example, such features could be exposed in the media element's context menu or via a TV remote control."
Comment 1 Anne 2015-09-02 15:58:48 UTC 
Silvia, thank you. Could I ask you write a PR? https://github.com/whatwg/html
Comment 2 Philip Jägenstedt 2015-09-03 12:27:14 UTC 
Media Session is also tangentially related here, in that it will be possible on Android to control the playback using a second device, i.e. a wearable device like a watch.
Comment 3 Anne 2016-03-22 13:22:32 UTC 
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/914