Now that the PosterImage uses a poster, we can make use of it to support multiple image formats. Very much a work in progress, needs tests, and there may well be edge cases yet to be considered.

Changes:

• The argument to the poster() setter may now be a poster options object. A string is still supported to be non-breaking.
• The poster options object should specify an array of objects as sources. The object properties will be used as attributes of <source> elements of the PosterImage's <picture>.
• The poster options object may include a string img, which is the src used for the <picture>'s <img>. If sources is set and img is not, img is set to the last item in sources.
• The poster options object may include a string alt, so alt text can be set on the <img>.
• The poster options object may also be passed as a player setup option, posterOptions.
• Adds a posterOpts() getter to fetch the poster options. However this is not a setter, since the options are set with poster().
• if sources are used, poster() as a getter will return the image actually used.
• If sources are used, the poster attribute is not set on the tech, so the tech and poster do not load different images.
• If sources are not used, the poster attriute is optionally not set if a new player option noTechPoster is set to true. This is useful since the poster now uses laszy loading, so the video el doesn't load the image.

Examples

// Works as currently
player.poster('https://example.com/image.jpeg');
// Would have the same effect
player.poster({img: 'https://example.com/image.jpeg'});
// Would set a poster, and its alt text
player.poster({img: 'https://example.com/image.jpeg', alt: 'Descriptive text for a screen reader'});

// The browser would use webp if it suppports it
player.poster({
  sources: [{
    srcset: 'https://example.com/image.webp',
    type: 'image/webp'
  },
  {
    srcset: 'https://example.com/image.jpeg',
    type: 'image/jpeg'
  }],
  img: 'https://example.com/image.jpeg'
});

// Where the fallback image is omited, the last source's image is used. This would be
// equivalent to the last example.
player.poster({
  sources: [{
    srcset: 'https://example.com/image.webp',
    type: 'image/webp'
  },
  {
    srcset: 'https://example.com/image.jpeg',
    type: 'image/jpeg'
  }]
});

To do

• Tests
• jsdoc/types