Re: Should <video> buffer control be tri-state?

Philip Jägenstedt, Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:05:07 +0100:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:44:44 +0100, Silvia Pfeiffer:
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Philip Jägenstedt :
>>> On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:19:11 +0100, Leif Halvard Silli:
>>>> Philip Jägenstedt, Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:35:54 +0100:
   [...]
>> A third (fourth?) state of "nothing" struck me as necessary when ppl
>> started writing that they are replacing the video element with an
>> image and javascript to avoid loading anything at all. But I am happy
>> to ignore this situation until we have more statistics on what people
>> actually do.
> 
> I quite like this too. If this WG doesn't care for it, perhaps 
> experiments with it could be done with a vendor prefix, like 
> "-o-nothing".

I think many in the WG would be very positive about a "nothing" value. 
As for statistics etc, then for example the popular open source Flash 
player Flowplayer recommends image and javascript as the most important 
way to embed flash with their player. [1][2]

Quote from [2]: "Absolutely killer feature of Flowplayer is the ease of 
installing multiple players on a page without any loss of performance."

Flowplayer has a focus on hosting on one's own server rather than on 
sites like Youtube [3].

[1] http://flowplayer.org/demos/installation/splash-image.html

[2] http://flowplayer.org/demos/installation/multiple-players.html

[3] http://flowplayer.org/documentation/index.html
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leif halvard silli

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