Re: Public feedback on HTML5 video

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> It's really not what Gruber mentioned, though.  He, and the rest of
>> us, don't want a page with 3+ (or 50+) <video>s to start buffering all
>> of them.  That's obviously bad.  But grabbing a little bit of
>> information from each, to determine intrinsic ratios and duration?
>> That's both fine, and roughly on par with downloading an image.  We're
>> fine with the performance of 50+ images on a page, so why do we need
>> the ability to control <video> any more carefully?
>> ...
>
> Potentially because of servers without proper partial request (byte range)
> support...

That's fair.  I wouldn't know how much, if any, of a problem this is
though.  No one's mentioned it as an issue with implementations so
far.  Firefox devs, is this a problem with your current
bandwidth-conservative approach?

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 31 December 2009 14:34:01 UTC