Re: Buffered bytes for media elements

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

Received on Thursday, 16 October 2008 04:56:37 UTC