tstarling(a)svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
Revision: 25605
Author: tstarling
Date: 2007-09-07 04:02:32 +0000 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007)
Log Message:
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You might find email to be more efficient for sending private
messages
-- that way only the recipient downloads it, instead of the recipient
plus 100 million Wikipedia readers. Or indeed, a commit notice. With a
large file in the data parameter in Mozilla, the browser downloads the
entire file before it starts playing. The referenced document may
describe streaming, but the same technique is also necessary for
cross-browser progressive download.
Comments are meant to aid all future maintainers of the software to
understand the purpose of the nonobvious techniques, so a private e-mail
would be entirely mistargeted.
Since you'd prefer to keep the JavaScript comments small, though, I've
gone ahead and replaced it with a URL to this commit message.
I suggest we settle this question with a light sabre duel.
-- Tim Starling