Any idea of the syntax for the 'controls' attribute, Sam? Is it simply matter of leaving it out of the code if the control isn't required?
Each Christmas I like to have a good quality festive midi toon playing softly in the background on pageload (no-repeat). Obviously, the appearance of a control bar instead of the desired page would be pretty jolly silly. It's a shame HTML5 is still quite some way off, as it does indeed appear to represent "the future". It's also likely to kill me having to manually update 200+ pages from a primordial version of HTML.