Vids and sounds July 13, 2007
Posted by Phineas in : Irrelevant, Web Tech , trackbackOn old complaint: videos and audio effects on web pages should never automatically start to play. They should always have a start button and wait for a user to click play. Auto-start behavior would be as if your TV just started playing whatever channel it is on every time you glance in the general direction of the TV. That’s ridiculously annoying. Web designers should code the media to wait for user to explicitly perform a click. Better yet, browsers ought to allow you to control this behavior as a browser preference.
For now I’ll try this Firefox extension:
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