- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:58:07 -0500
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>, Kornel <kornel@geekhood.net>, public-html@w3.org
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > I think it would be reasonable to offer preload="no", preload="metadata", > preload="playthrough" and preload="all" with the understanding that due to > resource or policy limits any value (other than "no") is only a hint and the > user agent may not be able to honor it. This seems like the best proposal so far, to me. The name "preload" is clear enough that I'm not *too* worried about authors misusing it, at least if they look at the HTML they're using (although I'm sure some still will). I would really like the spec to say that in the absence of a preload attribute, UAs *should* try to guess what videos users will play, and behave somewhere between preload="metadata" and preload="playthrough" depending on how likely they think it is. As an author, it would be nice not to have to specify this explicitly in most cases -- one less thing to worry about.
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