noplaybackrate in HTMLMediaElement.controlsList

Category: Multimedia
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 93)
Intent stage: Shipped

Summary

Offers a way for the website to enable/disable the playback speed control exposed by the browser in native media controls.

Motivation

With browser vendors adding playback speed control to their native media controls, developers want to control the visibility of this new control. Using the existing HTMLMediaElement.controlsList attribute, developers can enable/disable the visibility of the playback speed control with the new token “noplaybackrate”.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6715
Firefox: No signal — Gecko folks are unlikely to object to this specifically, but object to the overall native media controls customization API as a whole, hence doesn't make sense to bug them with specific questions on this. See https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/2426
Safari: Negative
Web developers: No signals — An internal business partner would like to completely get rid of the three-dots menu to save screen real-estate
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1211336

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media/controlslist-noplaybackrate.html

Explainers: https://github.com/wicg/controls-list/blob/master/explainer.md

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