Live Spaces Media Player Powertoy lacks 2 View options

Before Spaces went Live the Media Player Powertoy had 4 views:

Invisible: No controls no video window.

None: No controls but full video window (pixel height is not constrained) present for video links and viz for music links.

Mini: Controls but are limited since with the lack of playlists only play stop and volume controls are needed. Video window is small, limited pixel height in most Space layout types.

Full: Full Video window (not height constrained) and full controls, though again these are useless without playlists.

The current Live Spaces only have two view options though 4 are listed.

None+Invisible: nothing is displayed at all. This should be corrected with None being a video window not height constrained without controls. Only invisible should omit a video window being displayed.. even then Inivisible should include a mini control bar for music... Perhaps adding a 5th option of No Video or replace Inivisible with No Video that leaves those mini music controls.

Mini: The only other available view option only displays a height constrained video window with the difference being the addition of controls to that video window to the full view option. Which are again pointless without the ability to link to playlists that contain links to URLs online, such as jpgs videos and music where you can use back and forward controls.

Please add a none height constrained view to the Powertoy to allow users to display video at a more appropriate resolution for the width of the column where they put the powertoy. And leave basic controls visible when selecting the Invisible option so that people who view a space can see immediatly that rich content is originating from the Powertoy on the that page.

[1776 byte] By [lzim] at [2007-12-26]

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