This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 9155 - "The attribute must be ignored if the autoplay attribute is present." - seems wrong when the user has set a pref to make autoplay="" not autoplay
Summary: "The attribute must be ignored if the autoplay attribute is present." - seems...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-02-25 23:05 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:59 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments

Description contributor 2010-02-25 23:05:46 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-media-preload

Comment:
"The attribute must be ignored if the autoplay attribute is present." - seems
wrong when the user has set a pref to make autoplay="" not autoplay

Posted from: 85.227.153.46 by simonp@opera.com
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2010-03-02 15:15:07 UTC 
Instead it should probably say that the attribute is to be ignored when the video has started to play, but it seems pointless to have a 'must' requirement since it's not testable and it might be useful to look at the hint anyway.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-03-30 02:35:31 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 3 contributor 2010-03-30 02:45:16 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4903.
Check-in comment: Cleanup of preload='' and autoplay=''.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4902&to=4903