- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:22:45 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Double wrote: > As I mentioned in a previous email, the sniffing could result in a > reasonable amount of data being consumed. I'm sure people who run > sites that share HTML 5 video would appreciate browsers not consuming > data bandwidth to sniff files that they've already specified as being > something the browser doesn't support. I think the solution to this concern is to allow authors of bandwidth-sensitive to specify the type attribute on <source> or the Content-Type header on the HTTP response to say something other than application/octet-stream or text/plain. For best performance, authors should use the type attribute in multi-<source> cases anyway. I don't think it follows that it's necessary to fail hard in the application/octet-stream or text/plain cases for all sites--even ones whose authors value ease over bandwidth conservation or ones whose authors have carefully specified the type attribute on source but are using a hard-to-configure CDN to serve the files. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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