[whatwg] Firing canplaythrough when caches/buffers are full

[Jer Noble]

On May 27, 2012, at 5:51 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:

> I propose fixing this by having the UA enter the HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA
> readyState when the UA decides to suspend a download indefinitely and the
> preload state is "Automatic" (or overriden by "autoplay" being set).
> 
> We have checked in a patch to Gecko to do this. (Note that for a long time,
> Gecko has triggered playback of autoplay elements when suspending due to
> media buffers being full. The new change makes us enter HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA as
> well.)

For what it's worth, the Mac port of WebKit has this exact behavior: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/97944>.  It would be good to formalize this, however.

-Jer