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2003 | 2003 | fingerprinting, they SHOULD ignore the {{HardwareAcceleration}} preference. |
2004 | 2004 |
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2005 | 2005 | <div class='note'> |
2006 | | - NOTE: Good examples of when a User Agent may ignore |
| 2006 | + NOTE: Good examples of when a User Agent can ignore |
2007 | 2007 | {{HardwareAcceleration/prefer-hardware}} or |
2008 | 2008 | {{HardwareAcceleration/prefer-software}} are for reasons of user privacy or |
2009 | 2009 | circumstances where the User Agent determines an alternative setting would |
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2020 | 2020 | device-specific, but authors can generally expect the following: |
2021 | 2021 |
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2022 | 2022 | * Setting a value of {{HardwareAcceleration/prefer-hardware}} or |
2023 | | - {{HardwareAcceleration/prefer-software}} may significantly restrict what |
2024 | | - configurations are supported. It may occur that the user's device does not |
| 2023 | + {{HardwareAcceleration/prefer-software}} can significantly restrict what |
| 2024 | + configurations are supported. It can occur that the user's device does not |
2025 | 2025 | offer acceleration for any codec, or only for the most common profiles of |
2026 | | - older codecs. It may also occur that a given User Agent lacks a software |
| 2026 | + older codecs. It can also occur that a given User Agent lacks a software |
2027 | 2027 | based codec implementation. |
2028 | 2028 | * Hardware acceleration does not simply imply faster encoding / decoding. |
2029 | 2029 | Hardware acceleration often has higher startup latency but more consistent |
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2058 | 2058 | software codec implementation. User Agents may ignore this value for any |
2059 | 2059 | reason. |
2060 | 2060 |
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2061 | | - NOTE: This may cause the configuration to be unsupported on platforms where |
| 2061 | + NOTE: This can cause the configuration to be unsupported on platforms where |
2062 | 2062 | an unaccelerated codec is unavailable or is incompatible with other aspects |
2063 | 2063 | of the codec configuration. |
2064 | 2064 | </dd> |
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2067 | 2067 | Indicates that the User Agent <em class="rfc2119">SHOULD</em> prefer |
2068 | 2068 | hardware acceleration. User Agents may ignore this value for any reason. |
2069 | 2069 |
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2070 | | - NOTE: This may cause the configuration to be unsupported on platforms where |
| 2070 | + NOTE: This can cause the configuration to be unsupported on platforms where |
2071 | 2071 | an accelerated codec is unavailable or is incompatible with other aspects of |
2072 | 2072 | the codec configuration. |
2073 | 2073 | </dd> |
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