- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:59:28 +0100
- To: "Gavin Carothers" <gavin@carothers.name>, HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: comments@daringfireball.net
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:47:57 +0100, Gavin Carothers <gavin@carothers.name> wrote: > John Gruber of Daring Fireball on the autobuffer attribute for the > video element: > > http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/html5_video_unusable > > Summary: > > "This attribute may be ignored altogether" should be removed from the > spec. I disagree. > Summarized Rationale: > > Avoid downloading video on pay per megabyte connections, and avoid > extra bandwidth from the publisher on video that won't be played. It seems reasonable to ignore the attribute *especially* on pay-per-byte connections. If I'm on a pay-per-byte connection, I never want to autobuffer video, even if the attribute is present. On the flip side, when using a file: URL, it seems reasonable to ignore the attribute and always autobuffer, since that leads to better user experience and doesn't use any bandwidth. > The whole article is worth reading, and seems like a very reasonable > argument based on real world usage of the video element. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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