- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:03:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Philip J?genstedt wrote: > > OK, so in that case I suppose the requirement is to call load() sometime > during the parsing phase. This probably implies that the loadstart event > must be fired on all media elements before the load event is fired on > the owner document. Yes, typically. > As a side note, we certainly can't want to wait for all media elements > to fire the load before firing it on the parent document event as that > may take several minutes or never happen at all -- breaking half of the > web that relies on this behavior. Right; the spec says only things that "delay the load event" delay the load event, and <video> isn't one of them. > > The script can tell if the download is being blocked by checking > > bufferingThrottled and bufferingRate. I'm not sure we want a way to > > override the blocking since it is supposed to represent user intent. > > Indeed, but it wouldn't be a spec violation to value automatic loads and > script-invoked loads slightly different internally. That said, it's not > a priority and I will reraise the question if it appears to be a real > need in the future. Ok. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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