Bug 35088 – Setting src on <source> shouldn't restart the resource selection algorithm

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: Media

[Simon Pieters (:zcorpan)]

URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
     Chrome: FAIL
  Firefox 3.x: has different bugs
         IE 7: N/A
         IE 8: N/A
  Opera 10.50 beta: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Consider:

<video><source></video>
<script>
onload = function(){
  document.body.firstChild.firstChild.src = 'test.mp4';
}
</script>

What is the expected result?

This should not load anything, because the resource selection algorithm 
should have been started during parsing and have discarded the <source> 
element (so that "pointer" is between the <source> and the end of the list). 

What happens instead?

Safari happily loads the video. The author should be required to 
explicitly call load() per spec.

[Simon Pieters (:zcorpan)]

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36120

[Simon Pieters (:zcorpan)]

If I run the script when clicking a button instead of onload, Safari still fails but Chrome passes (though I might have an older webkit for Safari).

[Arun Patole]

I couldn't reproduce this issue with the latest webkit code. Also the related chromium issue mentioned in Comment #1 is already closed.