- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:56:21 +1000
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM, David Singer<singer@apple.com> wrote: > At 10:44 +1200 8/06/09, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > > I think the right message is "in-page media should not autoplay, > > I don't think that's the right message. > > nor me. I think the right message is that UAs should have a preference, or > some way for the user to indicate, what and whether they want auto-played > media to auot-play. "Never', "only visible media" (no auto sound effects), > "Only if I cam from the same site" (I probably clicked on a link requesting > media),....whatever settings they like. > scripts can be disabled. so should auto-play be dis-ablable (ugly word!) I recently came across a browser (I think it was "stainless" for Mac) that let me open multiple YouTube video pages (e.g. after a search) in several tabs without having them autoplay immediately. Only when I clicked on the tab did the autoplay start. That was really impressive and a much better experience than having them autoplay and having to go through each tab to put the videos on pause. Still: I think with the number of video pages that I always have open in tabs, I would much prefer having a setting in a browser that I do not want anything to autoplay. So far, only the Firefox extension for YouTube is achieving this for me and it really helpful at that. I would therefore also encourage browser vendors to have a setting that lets you manipulate autoplay settings from authors to: * always * never * when visible * never, except for on specific whitelisted sites * always, but not on specific blacklisted sites * only if I referred from same site I think these options as discussed so far make a lot of sense. However, I am not sure if such a list should go into the standard or be more of a recommendation to browser vendors... Regards, Silvia.
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