Re: [css-content]: video

Brad Kemper <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Jul 2016 08:55:04 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.css.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Jun 13, 2016, at 5:34 PM, Dean Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jun 13, 2016, at 5:26 PM, Garrett Smith <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Dean Jackson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> I think both <img src="cutekittens.mp4"> and url(cutekittens-v-bulldozer.mp4) should be supported. We've done some internal prototypes and it's very nice.
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>> I'm not sure about media controls on the <img> case. I think we should start with something that is the same behaviour as a GIF is today.
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>> If it's possible to harness such powerful control over the browser, people will do it in the worst way possible. They might even use JS libraries and then call it a best practice for ads, etc that the user can't see and cannot stop. 
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>> The `content` property doesn't seem like a good place to declare media for CSS. Thinking if you want :active to trigger audio, etc and have that be presentation-only. 
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> I suggest it that it should be equivalent to GIF. No audio. No interaction. No worse, but an improvement in quality, asset download size and system resources (if implemented correctly).

hat sounds reasonable to me.