[whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Mon Jan 17 13:41:17 PST 2011


One solution that could work here is to honour dynamic changes to 'preload',
so switching preload to 'none' would stop buffering. Then a script could do
that, for example, after the user has paused the video for ten seconds. The
script could also look at 'buffered' to make its decision.

Rob
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