Video Player: tasty carrot component

[Colin Clark]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the feedback. Yep, autoplay is definitely evil for many  
users, hence the ability to toggle the feature on and off. Undoubtedly  
it would default to off.

Coin

On 7-Dec-09, at 1:15 PM, Michael S Elledge wrote:
> I haven't been following this thread, so please pardon if this is  
> off-base, but remember that videos should play only when users  
> initiate them. So, if this is autoplay after a person has started  
> it, it's okay; if it is playing without the user choosing, it's not  
> okay. Default should be off.

>>
>>> - Auto-play when the video is sufficiently buffered
>>
>> This is, fortunately, built right into the HTML 5 spec, so we get  
>> it for free. Probably worth testing, and perhaps exposing a public  
>> method on the Video Player that allows implementers to toggle this  
>> feature on and off.

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
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