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Bug 11465 - Please please please make this required that the browser obey the value set by the attribute.
Summary: Please please please make this required that the browser obey the value set b...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-12-03 19:19 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:12 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-12-03 19:19:05 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-media-preload

Comment:
Please please please make this required that the browser obey the value set by
the attribute.

Posted from: 63.119.10.8
Comment 1 Toby Inkster 2010-12-03 22:32:52 UTC 
No - the browser needs to make the final decision as to whether to preload the element - not the page author.

The browser has a chance of knowing the user's connection speed, and whether it makes sense to preload. The browser has a chance of knowing whether the user's paying per megabyte, and can afford to preload. The page author knows neither of these things.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-01-11 00:34:56 UTC 
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   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It's the _user_ agent, not the _author_ agent. That is to say, the user gets the final say, not the Web developer.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:12:07 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1