Comments on: More audio and video docs

By: mawrya

mawrya — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:00:38 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I looked up the WHATWG docs and it sounds like it does matter what you set as the value:

“If the attribute is present, its value must either be the empty string or a value that is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the attribute’s canonical name, with no leading or trailing whitespace.”

Based on this, one must use either:

autoplay=”" OR autoplay=”autoplay”

Otherwise the video wouldn’t autoplay.

By: sheppy

sheppy — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:18:40 +0000

The reason the samples were written the way they are is because no matter what value you specify for autoplay, providing an autoplay option at all means the value is considered to be “true”. Actually specifying “true” in the sample would confuse people into assuming that specifying “false” would mean “false,” when in actuality it means “true”.

By: mawrya

mawrya — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:47:59 +0000

Looking good! I noticed that there is an autoplay “attribute” in the example but it has no value so its not valid XML, right? For people who are writing XHTML what should they be using? autoplay=”true”, maybe?

I realize HTML5 doesn’t have to be written as XML, but it might be nice to encourage people that way anyway, just to ensure they don’t have problems.