On 2016-09-21 4:35 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Andrew Sutherland < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> A motivating use-case is for a site that wants to download movies/podcasts >> in the background and keep them around for offline purposes. Once the file >> is downloaded, it seems clear that the (ServiceWorker [DOM]) Cache API[1] >> is a great place to store the result. What's less clear is how best to >> handle allowing the user to begin watching the movie when the download is >> still in-progress. >> > > It seems to me that authors could solve this using MSE for playback and > breaking the file into chunks.
Good point, which brings us to this question: is media playback the only use case for using the in-progress downloads? _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
