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Old 12-20-2012, 11:15 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by mzmm View Post
@dgatwood - i don't think this is a bug. i may be missing something here, but 'autoplay' is a boolean attribute, which i understand to mean that if it is present in the <video> element it's necessarily true, and false only if absent.

Ah. I see the problem. The spec for the video tag is inconsistent with the behavior of all of the previous tags that did the same thing. For example, the <embed> tag requires you to specify autostart="false" or else it automatically plays.

So I still say "file a bug", but file it with the W3C and tell them that they need to fix the spec so that browsers are required to handle autostart="false" and autostart="true" in the obvious way.
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