On 8/22/14 10:17 AM, Hubert Figuière wrote:
On 21/08/14 01:29 PM, Wesley Johnston wrote:
Summary: We've had some complaints at times about videos autoplaying on mobile
devices when sites request autoplay.
[...]
Autoplay waste bandwidth, whether mobile or wifi. In some case it is
more serious than other.
I think it would make a lot of sense to have an explicit "low bandwidth
mode" that did stuff like this, instead of trying to address it
piecemeal. There's all kinds of stuff that can consume bandwidth, and if
we think it's a real concern then let's directly address it.
Consider the increasingly popular gfycat.com. It offers GIF hosting with
reduced bandwidth, by encoding as WebM. Example:
http://www.gfycat.com/SpectacularPerfectCygnet.html (910K WEBM)
http://giant.gfycat.com/SpectacularPerfectCygnet.gif (10.9MB GIF)
Autoplay makes complete sense in this context, just as every browser
will "autoplay" a GIF. If the concern is actually bandwidth, then it
would be better to avoid/abort loading video _and_ images above some
arbitrary threshold. Why penalize a 910K video file but not an images
12x as large? Should be the other way around!
Justin
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