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The consumers are using different browsers. People who write HTML are often not very competent and cannot make page display properly everywhere. I use Chromium
by codedokode 10y ago
The consumers are using different browsers. People who write HTML are often not very competent and cannot make page display properly everywhere.
I use Chromium (because unlike Chrome it is open source). Video playback doesn't work even on twitter and vimeo (who can afford to hire good developers) let alone smaller websites. But it works on Youtube (not always, some videos require flash) and Wikipedia.
UPD: That is why I think people sould learn from Wikipedia developers and not some hipster guys explaining how to connect Redux to Angular2 using ES7.
- gcp 10y agoVideo playback doesn't work even on twitter and vimeo This is because they use H.264, a patented but common video codec. Chrome includes a licensed decoder for it, but Chromium cannot include that because it's open source. Firefox "solves" this by relying on installed system libraries (for video) and a licensing hack by Cisco (for WebRTC). Your experience is a pretty good illustration that Chromium is not the open source version of Chrome.
- codedokode 10y agoChromium might not support H.264 but it supports VP8 and some open source codec Wikipedia uses. So the problem is with developers relying on proprietary codecs.
- gcp 10y agoH264 isn't proprietary, it's patented. Anyway, like my own post here, what you say is factually right but besides the point. Users expect H264 to work or the web will break. Like -webkit prefixes.