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Revision as of 02:40, 11 November 2008
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* Using Access-Control utils (under discussion) should already contain those checks, but we should test to be sure. | * Using Access-Control utils (under discussion) should already contain those checks, but we should test to be sure. | ||
* There was some talk of a pref to override access-control checks, as a developer thing. | * There was some talk of a pref to override access-control checks, as a developer thing. | ||
* <video> and <audio> need to check with defined nsIContentPolicy providers (we do, roc thinks) | * <video> and <audio> need to check with defined nsIContentPolicy providers (we do, roc thinks; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451004 says we don't) | ||
* bandwidth issue: no way (pref) to turn off video or audio. Apparently a kill switch is already planned as a fall-back in case of legal issues. | * bandwidth issue: no way (pref) to turn off video or audio. Apparently a kill switch is already planned as a fall-back in case of legal issues: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448600 | ||
** But it's too late to add significant new UI | ** But it's too late to add significant new UI | ||
** Need a bug to add UI for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464150 | |||
* also an accessibility issue. | * also an accessibility issue. | ||
* probably need separate prefs for video and audio since there accessibility and bandwidth reasons why some might wish to block one and allow the other. | * probably need separate prefs for video and audio since there accessibility and bandwidth reasons why some might wish to block one and allow the other. That's probably for some future release. | ||
* pages/frames opened on video/audio content will play that content. | |||
* currently that auto-plays automatically in full-page, should we change that? | |||
* tags in a page obey the autoplay attribute. Some people are going to want a way to say videos shouldn't play until they want them to (just as we have control over how animated images play). Do we need a pref for that too? definitely too late to get UI for it, but a backend pref would still be useful for addons to add UI later. | |||