If a user in America watches a media stream hosted in America but embedded on a blog page hosted in Europe, the media stream would have to cross the ocean twice. This is not a trifle. Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elliotte Rusty Harold Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:10 PM Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Dealing with UI redress vulnerabilities inherent to the current web Ozob the Great wrote: > The bandwidth cost of hosting video makes this option unworkable for > some blogs. And yet someone's hosting that bandwidth today. This need not involve any net increase in bandwidth. It would just involve a rejiggering of hosting models. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED]