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List:       whatwg
Subject:    Re: [whatwg] Background audio channels
From:       Markus Ernst <derernst () gmx ! ch>
Date:       2013-04-11 10:20:49
Message-ID: 51668E81.2020606 () gmx ! ch
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Am 10.04.2013 21:14 schrieb Wesley Johnston:
> > Finally, apps can already solve this problem today - they know when they go into \
> > the background (for different permutations of "background", as Jer mentioned), \
> > and they can pretty trivially mute or pause their playing audio. Most of them \
> > don't.
> 
> Yes.... err... isn't this my point? Most of them (that I've encountered) aren't not \
> muting themselves because they think what they're playing is so important that it \
> shouldn't be stopped.

Well I as a user expect to have control on what is playing and what is 
muted. If I want to stop the audio or video, I actually hit the stop 
button or close the tab. If I focus an other tab or window or 
application without hitting stop or pause, I usually wish to continue 
listening, while working on something else.

To address your issue, UAs might provide a User setting such as "Stop 
audio and video playback when the page/tab is in the background", which 
may be eventually overridden by hitting "play" again.

What I consider really annoying about user control is, that video 
players usually have no "stop" button, but only a "pause" one, so the 
user can't stop the download process without closing or reloading the 
page. But this is another topic.

-- 
Markus


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