- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:08:03 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Gavin Carothers <gavin@carothers.name>, HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>, comments@daringfireball.net
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > When a <video> element > has the poster attribute set, in theory the browser could refrain from > loading anything at all, since there's no need to get an initial frame to > display. But then the duration and dimensions of the actual video will be > unknown, so it would not be possible to show a duration in the UI or in > custom controls, unless it's hardcoded. Would it be better to load nothing, > or the bare minimum to get a duration? I think it's more useful to load the duration and dimensions. This is typically going to be only a couple of extra packets loaded asynchronously, right? Why would you want to avoid loading even that much?
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