Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Yes, but the browser isn't psychic. It
doesn't know how long its going
to take to download the file. Before it starts it doesn't know how
This is not the browser development list, and
I'm not interested in developing or upgrading
my browser. I'm interested in video on Wikipedia
and making it work for large numbers of users,
using their existing browsers and versions.
I can to upgrade my own browser, but I can't
upgrade the browser for large numbers of other
users. All I can do here and now is to note
that today's browsers aren't ready for this.
Can we determine what today's browsers are
ready for? Will 2 megabit/second videos work?
If so, let's set that limit for the coming year,
and reevaluate the limit in early 2011.
Wikimedia Commons generates thumbnails
for still pictures, so it could generate reduced
bandwidth versions of videos.
That requires more processing power. Might be possible to
automatically add a warning that a video is unlikely to work properly
for most people.
--
geni