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So Firefox is now picking winners? YouTube, Vimeo, and Pageshot get picked. The features seem nice. The integrated to specific sites not so much. I know they s

So Firefox is now picking winners? YouTube, Vimeo, and Pageshot get picked. The features seem nice. The integrated to specific sites not so much. I know they say they'll add more video sites. That still means if youre not an established popular site you're basically 2nd class and your users may switch away because they can not use the feature. That doesn't seem proper for a brower and certainly not one with Mozilla's M.O.

fzzzy 10y ago
The Page Shot service is run by Mozilla. The back end is open source and it is easy to change the back end url that the add-on uses. (I work on Page Shot) It would be nice if Min Vid would work on every <video> element. That would seem like the right way to implement the functionality.
mintplant 10y ago
The article describes some new additions to Test Pilot, a program to quickly get feedback on experimental features that might some day end up in Firefox proper. As such they start just fleshed out enough to prove the concept--you could say they're MVP versions of browser features. If Min Vid were to make its way into the default install I'm sure its compatibility would be expanded, for example.
chuckharmston 10y ago
The roadmap includes support of a number of additional video providers: https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/6 https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/6 Additionally, they're looking at supporting any old HTML5 <video> element: https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/331 https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/331 The intent is certainly not to be exclusionary; it's just a new, experimental project with a small team. Disclaimer: I work at Mozilla, on Test Pilot.
- stephenr 10y ago
  So why does the playback of html5 video from a site outside the bounds of the page require specific support for the service? Why wouldn't you just make this play any <video> element in a floating widow and be done with it?

fzzzy 10y ago

The Page Shot service is run by Mozilla. The back end is open source and it is easy to change the back end url that the add-on uses. (I work on Page Shot) It would be nice if Min Vid would work on every <video> element. That would seem like the right way to implement the functionality.

mintplant 10y ago

The article describes some new additions to Test Pilot, a program to quickly get feedback on experimental features that might some day end up in Firefox proper. As such they start just fleshed out enough to prove the concept--you could say they're MVP versions of browser features. If Min Vid were to make its way into the default install I'm sure its compatibility would be expanded, for example.

chuckharmston 10y ago

The roadmap includes support of a number of additional video providers: https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/6 https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/6 Additionally, they're looking at supporting any old HTML5 <video> element: https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/331 https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/331 The intent is certainly not to be exclusionary; it's just a new, experimental project with a small team. Disclaimer: I work at Mozilla, on Test Pilot.

stephenr 10y ago
So why does the playback of html5 video from a site outside the bounds of the page require specific support for the service? Why wouldn't you just make this play any <video> element in a floating widow and be done with it?