HTML5 video controls events are gone.

[Rick Waldron]

Did you read that and think I was kidding or even trolling? I wish I was.
While no one was looking, Philip Jägenstedt from Opera posted this message
to the whatwg mailing list:
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2013-June/039873.htmlSeveral
weeks later, Ian Hickson posted this response:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2013Aug/0069.html

This change: http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8133&to=8134 to
spec and the patch that followed (here:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=269454) will suppress
all events dispatched by interaction with <video controls>. I had a friend
at Google double check this for me and they confirmed. What this means is
that a click on the "play" button will no longer dispatch a "play" event to
the <video> element, same for pause, and so on across all <video controls>
elements.

Does everyone remember this
http://www.w3.org/2010/05/video/mediaevents.html? Go have a look and
click around on <video controls> area... all of those
will no longer propagate to your JS programs.

This spec change needs to be reversed. Please direct all of your responses
to this mailing list thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2013Aug/0069.html

Rick

[Scott Downe]

I don't see anywhere where they are saying play or pause events are no
longer fired, just user interaction events "the user agent should suppress
any user interaction events". I take this as click and mousedown.

If that includes play and pause, they just broke the video element.

I'm not concerned with click events. What use does a click event have on a
video element?

I don't agree with the change, because I think it solves nothing, but it
also breaks nothing. It just seems fairly pointless to me.

Maybe I'm not getting it all.

I'm keeping my thoughts here on our mailing list until I understand the
issue better.

On 20 August 2013 22:47, Rick Waldron <waldro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you read that and think I was kidding or even trolling? I wish I was.
> While no one was looking, Philip Jägenstedt from Opera posted this message
> to the whatwg mailing list:
> http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2013-June/039873.htmlSeveral weeks later, Ian Hickson posted this response:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2013Aug/0069.html
>
> This change: http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8133&to=8134 to
> spec and the patch that followed (here:
> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=269454) will suppress
> all events dispatched by interaction with <video controls>. I had a friend
> at Google double check this for me and they confirmed. What this means is
> that a click on the "play" button will no longer dispatch a "play" event to
> the <video> element, same for pause, and so on across all <video controls>
> elements.
>
> Does everyone remember this

> http://www.w3.org/2010/05/video/mediaevents.html ? Go have a look and

> click around on <video controls> area... all of those will no longer
> propagate to your JS programs.
>
> This spec change needs to be reversed. Please direct all of your responses
> to this mailing list thread:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2013Aug/0069.html
>
> Rick
>

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