HTML5 Video poster attribute in Safari and Chrome

Question

In Firefox the image specified by the poster attribute of the VIDEO tag remains on screen until the play button is pressed. However in the Webkit browsers (Safari a

Answer 1

If you can get away with not preloading the video you can set preload="none" on the video element. In Safari this results in the poster being displayed.

Safari on iOS probably sets preload="none" as the default to save bandwidth, while the desktop version preloads unless you explicitly tell it not to.