[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 25267] Autobuffer on <audio /> cannot be disabled

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25267


Jeremy Keith <jeremy at adactio.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Jeremy Keith <jeremy at adactio.com>  2009-07-08 17:39:20 PDT ---
Currently this bug is the only thing stopping me from implementing the AUDIO
element on the site, http://huffduffer.com/

If there were some way of explicitly disabling autobuffer, that would be fine
...but because it's a Boolean attribute, the only way to disable it is not to
use the attribute.[1] WebKit seems to be interpreting the lack of an autobuffer
attribute as an implicit request for autobuffering when the opposite should be
the case.

The indication in the HTML 5 spec that "this attribute may be ignored
altogether"[2] means that an explicit request for autobuffering may be ignored.
It does not mean that autobuffering should be enabled by default.

Disabling autobuffering by default, as well as being the behaviour indicated in
the spec, is also the safest default behaviour for users' bandwidth.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#boolean-attribute
[2] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#attr-media-autobuffer

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