- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:55:38 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org, John Harding <jharding@google.com>
On Oct 13, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > These attributes were added primarily in response to a request from > YouTube, if I recall correctly. The problem they solve is that there > can > be a great difference between the amount of time buffered and the > number > of bytes buffered, and a clever author would find information about > the > bytes buffered to be far more useful than the amount of time > available. What's the specific thing you can do with bytes buffered that you can't do with time buffered? It is hard to propose a useful alternative without knowing that. Regards, Maciej
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