- From: Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:30:24 +0000
- To: HTMLwg WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri wrote: > As for making autobuffer tri-state, I think changing it at this > point is too late, because it has already been implemented as a > boolean attribute in a browser that has significant market share (http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/12/22/firefox-35-surpasses-ie7-market-share > ). I can see why a tri-state attribute would be a more "bulletproof" attribute, but I tend to agree with Henri. > At this point, I think the available options (if there's agreement > that authors should be able to instruct browsers not to buffer) are > minting another boolean attribute 'nobuffer' or a tri-state > attribute 'buffering' (with precedence rules relative to autobuffer). At this stage, a quick fix would be to update the spec to clarify that the lack of an @autobuffer attribute indicates (author intent) that the media resource SHOULD not be pre-buffered. It's not a perfect solution, but I reckon it would be good enough. -- Jeremy Keith a d a c t i o http://adactio.com/
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