508022 - Video controls don't work as expected if the video element is within a link

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Video/Audio Controls, defect)

Description

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Attachment: testcase

If a video element is put within a link, clicking on its controls activates the link rather or (or maybe in addition to) activaiting the clicked control.

Comment 1

[George Chriss]

Found the same thing in Firefox 7.0.  An example (lamp on the left): http://gchriss.tumblr.com

Expected behavior:
Right click -> show controls -> click anywhere on the scrubber and/or drag the scrubber and have the video seek to that timepoint.

Actual behavior:
Right click -> show controls -> clicking anywhere on the scrubber seeks to the correct timepoint but immediately activates the hyperlink.  Dragging the scrubber works for ~100ms until the scrubber is paused, in-place, and a translucent single frame becomes drag-and-droppable.

Other thoughts:
It would be neat to have the single frame drag-and-droppable as an image rather than a text-only URL.