[whatwg] Author control over media preloading/buffering

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> >
> > Under "Once enough of the media data has been fetched to determine the
> > duration of the media resource, its dimensions, and other metadata",
> > after setting the state to HAVE_METADATA, steps 7 and 8 say
> >
> > > 7. Set the element's delaying-the-load-event flag to false. This stops
> > > delaying the load event.
> > >
> > > 8. This is the point at which a user agent that is attempting to
> > > reduce network usage while still fetching the metadata for each media
> > > resource would stop buffering, causing the networkState attribute to
> > > switch to the NETWORK_IDLE value, if the media element did not have an
> > > autobuffer or autoplay attribute.
> >
> > I suggested HAVE_CURRENT_DATA would be a better state for these actions,
> > and I still think so. These actions should not occur until the UA is
> > able to display the first frame of the video. Authors would want the
> > first frame of a non-autobuffered video to be visible, and the document
> > load event should fire after the first frame is available by analogy
> > with images.
>
> I've updated the note as per your suggestion.
>

In step 7 you still stop delaying the load event after loading metadata. I
still say we should keep delaying the load event until we reach
HAVE_CURRENT_DATA.

Rob
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