Re: Public feedback on HTML5 video

Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
 > ...
> It's really not what Gruber mentioned, though.  He, and the rest of
> us, don't want a page with 3+ (or 50+) <video>s to start buffering all
> of them.  That's obviously bad.  But grabbing a little bit of
> information from each, to determine intrinsic ratios and duration?
> That's both fine, and roughly on par with downloading an image.  We're
> fine with the performance of 50+ images on a page, so why do we need
> the ability to control <video> any more carefully?
> ...

Potentially because of servers without proper partial request (byte 
range) support...

> ...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 31 December 2009 13:21:29 UTC