title: <video> causes many requests *before being clicked*
body: <p>Even with preload disabled, the most simple <code>&lt;video&gt;</code> tag</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;video src="video.mp4" preload="none"&gt;&lt;/video&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>will cause <strong>10</strong> requests to the server <em>before being clicked</em>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:43 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/one-noposter.html HTTP/1.1" 200 267 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A400 Safari/6531.22.7"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:43 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 2 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:43 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 8621463 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:43 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 101783 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:44 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 8499743 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:44 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:44 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 2 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:44 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 8621463 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:44 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 101783 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:45 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 8505535 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  89.212.77.133 - - [01/Dec/2010:11:48:44 +0100] "GET /temp/html5-video-requests-test/video.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 206 8519680 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8A400 (iPhone Simulator; U; CPU OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Setting a poster reduces this to poster + approx. 3 requests.</p>
  
  <p>Since I have many videos on a page, I don't want the browser to make <em>any</em> requests until the video is clicked.</p>
  
  <p>What more can I do besides set a poster and disable preload?</p>