If it happens, I only have one wish: make the controls available even if the video is yet to load. I've no idea why I'm unable to press pause or, say, mute the

If it happens, I only have one wish: make the controls available even if the video is yet to load. I've no idea why I'm unable to press pause or, say, mute the volume before a video loads. Instead, I have to wait around. I think even my old VHS player would let me press pause before the video had finished loading! Isn't the cardinal rule of the web to not waste people's time?