Autostart

[psychemedia]

At the moment, video (and presumably audio) clips start to play as the full screen asset comes in to view. If you are scrolling up and down a story, eg maybe to re-read part of it, or to come back to it to finish reading a story you have already started, the video assets always autostart.

I wonder if it would be useful to have a setting whereby the autorun is enabled for the first sighting, but then to play it again requires a click? That way, the videos etc would autoplay as I read through a story the first time, but if I scroll back up through the story they don't keep restarting?

If the play-state is saved via a cookie, then if I start a story, read through part of it, close the window, then go back to the story at a later date to finish reading it, any videos I have already seen would not autoplay, but ones I haven't would?