On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote: > > Avoiding video autoplay on 3g, or warning about data use - this is valid > but something the browser/os could do, especially as the user may have set > data limits. This avoids every site having to implement the same messaging, > and the user can "don't tell me again" these kind of messages at the > browser/os level rather than per site. > > That would be nice. I don’t think anyone does this (either OS level or Web > browser) - but it could be handled at the <video> or <audio> level for sure. > Some mobile browsers (eg Andoird Chrome & iOS Safari) ignore the autoplay attribute on video. > For example, the iOS Audible application giving me control, as a user, > whether it can d/l 300mb audio books over cellular. > Yeah, there's a desire to enable background cache updates in ServiceWorker, but this option could (and in my opinion, should) be a browser option. Although I agree this makes it tricky to, say, sync "emails" on 3g but not "attachments".
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