On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:36:42 +0200, Bjartur Thorlacius
<svartma...@gmail.com> wrote:
Þann mið 17.ágú 2011 15:44, skrifaði Philip Jägenstedt:
I'd very much like to see feedback from other implementors. Are you
happy with treating autoplay and preload as "just hints" as in [4] or do
you think that we should specify them in greater detail? (This does not
preclude having user preferences to override the standardized defaults.)
If an UA may ignore them, than them being honored can't be relied upon -
rendering the default configuration a question of implementation (i.e.
providing sane defaults for the user agent's target user base) but not
of interoperability.
This is true, but as long as a few big browsers implement e.g.
preload="none" in a somewhat compatible way, it's hard to imagine page
authors not coming to depend on that behavior so that it becomes required
for web compat. It would be interesting to know if there are
counter-examples, any script-visible behavior that is allowed to vary
greatly between implementations without causing scripts to break.
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
