The short answer is, you can't. It is default off on all browsers in mobile size. There are no "on" switches for this, it would probably take a good bit of scripting to come up with a way around this. It's there for a reason, people don't want auto play things on their phones, it's annoying, takes up bandwidth and many times takes too long to load and messes up the loading speed of a web page. So ... no, in essence, unless you can find some super scriptor to do it, it cannot and should not be done. Obviously that must be the case if every single browser has initiated this "off" setting for mobile devices. P.S. In case you were thinking that the bandwidth I mentioned was for the phone user it's not. It raises the bandwidth usage to the person who's website it is, and no matter what company tells you you get "unlimited" bandwidth, that is entirely not true. There are limitations depending on what you have on your site. Videos use a lot of bandwidth, sound as well, but not quite as much. These raise the problem of the site owner having to possibly get a larger hosting package to accommodate their usage. For example: On a client's site, we had a video that did "NOT" have auto play on at all, in any size. We originally put it on the home page where he wanted it. His bandwidth usage went from a handful of MB to over 20 GB in 6 days. We changed the page it was on and it lowered it right back down. People were clicking that video constantly (it's a really nice video so yeah lol) and wracked up a lot of bandwidth usage. This is one of the most disappointing, ignorant, and profoundly stupid, responses I've been been witness to on these forums. Why disappointing? Because I have in the past been impressed by how valuable material from this author has been -- to the extent that if I had seen something from them I would have automatically read them thinking they were pretty likely to be worth my time. Obviously I've been incorrect in assuming this. Why ignorant? Because the writer has failed to read read, understand, and take seriously, the many postings by other authors on the "correct" procedures to follow when using sliders with people advising "never put a slider on the home page" and "always put the viewing of the slider at the discretion of the viewer", and "leave the viewing at the pace of the individual viewer; as well as the time of viewing at the discretion of the viewer -- if it's worth viewing the viewer will come back to it when they decide they have the time, and frame of mind, to view it" Why stupid? Because if you ignore the above recommendations, you'll VERY quickly alienate your viewers, or your potential viewers -- and that will make it less likely they'll make themselves available for you to make impressions on them in the future -- and in advertising (and we're all in "advertising" -- or trying to sell an idea to someone) -- it's key that you make as many impressions on your "market" as you can). Many potential customers will be lost if you try to control, rather than influence, their behaviour. Yeah, I agree totally Printninja, there's no reason at all that any browser should be making our decisions for us. Personally it's like telling me I'm not smart enough to make that decision on my own, when in fact I had already employed it long before the browsers had. Still, it should be our choice, not theirs. And the monopoly seems to be the ones making our decisions for us as usual. Big business gets their noses in there and decides how they want to make money and the rest of us have no choice in the matter. @Aussie: You have a very closed minded idea of how a web design business works or should be implemented. Just my opinion of course, but I don't care if you're working for a small business or a large corporation, what they say goes regardless and if they argue anything at all, it has nothing to do with their business level it has to do with their lack of knowledge which is what you are there for. If they don't listen to you, then what? You tell your $50k or $100k client "oh well, sorry you're too small time for me"? Sorry, but that's just now how things work. It's not your site it's theirs, and if they want something, then it's your job to do what you can to provide for their expectations if you are not able to change their minds. I've only had 1 client that was not able to be talked out of something, and I can guarantee you it had nothing to do with their business sense, their knowledge or the level of their company's worth. It had more to do with another person that had their ear that was ignorant and telling them what to do and they listened because they worked for that company. Sweet and simple, you don't always have that power. Just because they may be a big business, does not give them any insight into how a website does or should function. You give them much too much credit. And what are you doing in here anyways? You've pretty much said you wouldn't ever use apps like this, and you've spelled out that you're only "big business" minded, so what are you bothering with this piddly little app for and making waves on this forum for if it's not something you will use anyways? I find it very annoying actually that you have the audacity to come in here requesting and almost demanding features while telling us you don't use this app. Seriously, I don't use any other app and I do quite well for my clients and there's nothing "lower class" about the code this app gives you. It's cleaner than most other apps out there and more feature filled than most as well, while still remaining more user friendly than those others too. I most certainly don't use one app for my lower class clients and another for my higher class ones, sheesh who does that??? |
