18788 2012-09-06 08:25:01 +0000 <video> Allow downloads to continue after user navigates away from the page 2013-02-12 22:50:54 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#navigate P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 73283 0 contributor 2012-09-06 08:25:01 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#concept-media-load-resource Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#concept-media-load-resource Comment: Navigating shouldn't fire abort: "The fetching process is aborted by the user, e.g. because the user navigated the browsing context to another page" - I think navigating shouldn't invoke the abort steps, since if the user navigates back, the download should continue. Aborting means that the user needs to reload the whole page to see the video. Posted from: 94.234.170.57 by simonp@opera.com User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.4; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02 74061 1 ian 2012-09-18 23:55:26 +0000 Do you have any tests for this? 77362 2 ian 2012-10-29 23:51:15 +0000 zcorpan: ping 77483 3 zcorpan 2012-10-31 01:28:07 +0000 http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1878 79219 4 ian 2012-11-30 22:40:00 +0000 I suppose we could do something like stall the element or something... 83060 5 contributor 2013-02-12 22:50:54 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r7721. Check-in comment: Allow browsers to act like video stalled during navigation, rather than aborted. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7720&to=7721