There is a history of treating video attributes a bit differently on mobile than desktop. For instance, we currently default the preload attribute to download nothing in its default state. If its set to "auto" we only download metadata. Both were done to save bandwidth and memory on mobile devices and are done pretty consistently on other mobile browsers. Steve Sounders did a round up of preload a year or so ago: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/04/12/html5-video-preload/
I haven't heard or seen anything about autoplay. Useful for using videos in animated backgrounds, or opening something in an iframe. Video in the mobile web has been gimped by the iPhone for long enough, AFAIK its not widely used (yet). Is there a particular site driving this request? - Wes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tetsuharu OHZEKI" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 2, 2013 5:46:32 PM Subject: Should we disable "autoplay" feature of HTMLMediaElement on mobile? Hello, I propose that we should disable "autoplay" feature of HTMLMediaElement on mobile. (I'm sorry if this topics has been discussed for a long time ago in past times.) At the current configuration, Gecko runs on mobile (Firefox for Android, B2G) are enable the "autoplay" feature of HTMLMediaElement with using `media.autoplay.enabled=true`. However, I think this might not be useful for users. Because: * Mobile Devices are more used in public space than Desktop PCs. If browser auto-plays all media which come from web without some user activations, this should be privacy risk. * And, simply, it would shame me if browser auto-plays web page audio in the silent public space. * In related with above things, this behavior might have social attack risk by web pages. If browser auto-plays x-rated (violent, porn or etc) video/audio with loud volumes in the public space, his user's name will be mud. So I propose "we should disable "autoplay" feature of HTMLMediaElement on mobile". And I would like to discuss about it. I welcome your feedback to polish Firefox for mobile and web. Best Regards. -- Tetsuharu OHZEKI [email protected] _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
