- From: Chris Pearce <chris@pearce.org.nz>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:16:18 +1300
On 24/01/2011 12:32 a.m., Philip J?genstedt wrote: >> >> Hmm. To get this effect without preload=buffer, you could set >> preload=auto, >> watch the buffered attribute to see when some data is actually >> downloaded, >> then set it to preload=metadata to stop autoloading. That's a minor >> hack, >> and would need to watch out for browsers that don't autoload on >> preload=auto, but it's probably good enough for the above cases. >> It'd only >> work if runtime changes to preload are applied, which would also be >> needed >> for scripts to implement "preload=auto only when paused". > > I intend to make that impossible by only allowing scripts to increase > the effective buffering strategy FWIW, this is what we've implemented in Firefox; we only allow changes to the preload attribute after a load has started to increase the level of buffering. Chris P.
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