Re: Should <video> buffer control be tri-state?

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:

> It would have no visible effect other than performance, and the difference
> would be much less in the typical test environment where the author has a
> very fast pipe to his or her deployment server.
>

The performance effect is very noticeable, and if your controls UI shows the
buffer state, it's quite obvious what's going on.

One problem with making 'autobuffer' tri-state is that autobuffer="off" (or
whatever) is actually going to enable buffering in user-agents that support
the current autobuffer spec (i.e., Firefox).

Rob
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own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
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