- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:51:17 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > > The default value of "preload" is currently "auto". Actually the spec says the default is UA-defined. "auto" is only a suggestion. > The definition of "auto" is > "Hints to the user agent that the user agent can put the user's needs first > without risk to the server, up to and including optimistically downloading > the entire resource." > > This seems like a hint that authors should opt into rather than being > the default. Authors who don't think about what they're doing may omit > "preload" on large media resources and find that everything's fine for a > while, but later users with faster, cheaper networks and more local > storage connect and download essentially unbounded quantities of media > data. There are already examples of pages with many media elements with > no "preload" (or "autobuffer") attribute. IMHO "metadata" would be a > better default. That is a conforming implementation. I'd be happy to change the suggestion to "Metadata" if you think that would be better, but essentially that is an editorial change. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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