>Showing the poster at the end of playback is a matter of taste. How about we remain with a single 'poster' attribute, and add a 'showposter' attibute,
I agree except for the start, end and both part. We just need one poster and the ability to show it via script. If people want to change posters (I dont know of any site that has support for multiple posters which would mean that the need is not there) they can do it in script. At the moment the poster disappearing and not having the ability to turn it back on renders the poster attribute useless. But let us not complicate it by adding more posters J. Shiv <http://exposureroom.com/> http://exposureroom.com From: whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Pearce Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 5:27 AM To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Html 5 video element's poster attribute On 20/09/2010 6:11 p.m., Roger Hågensen wrote: If the user pauses the video during play then a "paused poster" must not be shown as the user most likely intends to study the paused frame of the video This is a good argument against having a paused-poster. The question then is whether the end-poster needs to be different from the start-poster. If the main use case is "re-display the poster image so the user knows that they can play again", then the end-poster and start-poster don't need to be different. Showing the poster at the end of playback is a matter of taste. How about we remain with a single 'poster' attribute, and add a 'showposter' attibute, with values 'start', 'end', and 'both', which denote when the poster is shown? Or the values could be enumerated similar to how readyState and networkState are enumerated. On 20/09/2010 7:57 p.m., Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Shiv Kumar <sku...@exposureroom.com> wrote: >Could a call to video.load() reset this state? Currently is doesnt affect the poster. But would that be intuitive? Im getting the video element to load its source and so the poster will show? I regard the load() function as a kind of reset() function. But possibly we need an actual reset() function to return to the original state where the poster image is displayed? It seems reasonable to me that subsequent calls to load() should behave the same was the first call to load(), so the poster should be redisplayed whenever load() is called. We should change the load() algorithm to require the poster frame to be repainted, if it's present. Chris P.