- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 07:31:21 -0600
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "Michael A.Puls II" <shadow2531@gmail.com>, "Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich" <k.scheppe@telekom.de>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > On Jan 5, 2010, at 15:14, Shelley Powers wrote: > >> Are you saying that Firefox would be incapable of supporting something >> like a buffer="yes", buffer="no", or buffer="auto" (browser, use best >> judgement)? > > No, that's *not* what I'm saying. Did you notice the last paragraph of http://www.w3.org/mid/124742CE-E050-4E88-ACE5-1613CC37E555@iki.fi ? > > What I'm saying is that authors wouldn't be able to use autobuffer='off', autobuffer='false', autobuffer='no' to cause *less* traffic to their servers as long as there are browsers use that treat autobuffer as a boolean attribute. > > -- > Henri Sivonen And autobuffer is from which released specification, where we have to worry about legacy use? Regardless, perhaps the best approach is a new attribute, and we encourage abandonment of autobuffer. > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > Shelley
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