On 28.1.2008, at 13:51, Charles wrote:
Antti,
Thanks for the response.
The video implementation available in the WebKit nightlies uses
overlay controls that fade away during playback and don't affect
the size of the video box. I saw a Firefox demo of this feature
that took similar approach as well.
Does WebKit do this whether the plug-in handling the format is
QuickTime,
Windows Media/Silverlight, Flash, etc.?
If users do show the <video> element's controls, are the plug-in's
native
controls shown? And when that happens, does the <video> element's
height
attribute then change if though the video's actual height hasn't
changed?
The <video> element offers an interface to the native media playback
capabilities of the platform. It is not a plug-in mechanism and it is
not suitable for embedding things like Flash or Silverlight. There are
existing mechanisms for that.
Since there is no plug-in the concept of "plug-in's native controls"
is not really applicable.
antti
If that's the case, is the expectation that authors will need to
temporarily
hide controls (or make sure they're already hidden) before getting its
height?
-- Charles
