Tonight's @w3ctag mtg Should a site be allowed to auto-play videos? Or should a user/browser be able to say no? (User control, says I) Overscroll Behaviour: when you scroll to the bottom of a scroll box in a larger scroll box, should it keep scrolling? github.com/w3ctag/meetings/b…
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Replying to @hadleybeeman @w3ctag
I think it's mostly about autoplay with sound, falling back to autoplay muted if they don't have the permission. Denying the ability to autoplay video just leads to horrible hacks like shipping video decoders with emscripten, or animated GIFs, wasting CPU and bandwidth.

Nov 22, 2017 · 2:24 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @w3ctag
D'oh! That's what I get for joining the call late 😜. Thanks!
Replying to @davidbaron @hadleybeeman @w3ctag
And yet on a low bandwidth connection often can't get the site you need cos overloaded with ads. Real answer should be that browsers should block the hacks as well if you have autoplay disabled.