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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by mjgoeke on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:48AM (#12565484)
Wait... get rid of auto playing videos at the spec level? I'd rather have the autoplay flag made explicit, rather than some hacked up soup of code that makes sure the video autoplays.

When intent is captured (e.g. specific "autoplay" flag) my browser client can interpret the flags according to my choosing. Capturing intent > not capturing intent.

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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by colejohnson66 on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:45PM (#12565973)
You mean an attribute on the video tag? That is a thing. It looks like this:

    <video autoplay>...</video>
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