OK, you are right. If a script wants to annoy me, it can. And boy, do some web designers not know how annoying that can be :-(
On Oct 18, 2010, at 16:59 , Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:57 PM, David Singer <sin...@apple.com> wrote: > isn't autoplaying a media element over which the user may well have no > control (unless the page offers a script to control it), inappropriate? > > Maybe, but elements not in a document can only be created by script in the > first place. If script wants to have a disconnected autoplay element, why not > let it? If it wants to be annoying it can just call play(). > > Rob > -- > "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for > they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures > every day to see if what Paul said was true." [Acts 17:11] David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
